The weather is cooling off, and leaves are thinking about changing. The apples are ripe and ready for picking and eating. Enjoy these fantastic apple facts and books all about apples.
Amazing Apple Loving Facts
Apples by Gail Gibbons
Explains how apples were brought to America, how they grow, their traditional uses and cultural significance, and some of the varieties grown.
Let’s Explore Apples! by Jill Colella
Do you like sweet or tart apples? Visit a farm to discover how apples grow, what the different types of apples are, and how they taste. Make some delicious applesauce, and discover how to find the star inside every apple. Includes a recipe for applesauce and ideas for an apple-tasting party.
Seed, Sprout, Fruit: An Apple Tree Life Cycle by Shannon Knudsen
Do you like sweet or tart apples? Visit a farm to discover how apples grow, what the different types of apples are, and how they taste. Make some delicious applesauce, and discover how to find the star inside every apple. Includes a recipe for applesauce and ideas for an apple-tasting party.
Apples for Everyone by Jill Esbaum
Do you like sweet or tart apples? Visit a farm to discover how apples grow, what the different types of apples are, and how they taste. Make some delicious applesauce, and discover how to find the star inside every apple. Includes a recipe for applesauce and ideas for an apple-tasting party.
Apples by Jacqueline Farmer
Describes the cultivation and uses of apples.
How to Grow an Apple Pie by Beth Charles
When Sophie turns six, she is eager to make an apple pie from trees planted at birth, but first, she must tend the trees, wait patiently, and learn to bake. Includes facts about the orchard on which the story is based, descriptions of tools Sophie uses, and a recipe.
Toto’s Apple by Mathieu Lavoie
Toto’s desire for an apple sees him launch a series of plans to reach his desired meal.
Peppa Goes Apple Picking by Meredith Rusu
Peppa, George, Mummy Pig, and Daddy Pig celebrate the start of fall by going to the apple orchard. They will bake the apples into a delicious pie for Granny and Grandpa Pig–and Daddy Pig knows a special trick for getting the juiciest, most delicious apples!
Apples for Little Fox by Ekaterina Trukhan
Fox, who hopes to become a famous detective one day, is excited about investigating his first case.
The Biggest Apple Ever by Steven Kroll
Fox, who hopes to become a famous detective one day, is excited about investigating his first case.
Apples A to Z by Margaret McNamara
An alphabet book double as a primer on apples and apple cultivation.
From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky
Grab the wagon, it’s a bright autumn day, and the trees are full of ripe red apples! There’s an apple festival underway at the farm and lots of work to do making cider. This visit finishes with a cider doughnut and a cup of freshly pressed cider. Told in crisp, action-driven thymes from a young child’s point of view, this book is a realistic account of how apple cider is pressed, flavored with the charm and vigor of a harvest celebration.
Apples, Apples, Apples! by Victoria Kann
It’s Apple Harvest Day at the Pinkville Orchard.
One Red Apple by Harriet Ziefert
It’s Apple Harvest Day at the Pinkville Orchard.
What’s an Apple? by Marilyn Singer
The rhyming text shows all the imaginative things you can do with an apple.
Tucker’s Apple-Dandy Day by Susan Winget
The rhyming text shows all the imaginative things you can do with an apple.