Presents a theme unit on apples, pumpkins, and harvest for use in kindergarten and first grade classrooms, including literature selections, poetry, activities, games, and other teaching tools.
Jessie travels back to the magical world of the Realm to try to discover what has gone wrong in the Hidden Valley where the gnomes live and the fairy-apples grow.
Photographs and simple text provide a basic overview of the life cycle of an apple tree, from seed to tree to harvest, and also provides additional facts about apple trees.
In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio, and the two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past.
When students in Mr. Tiffin's class are invited to solve a riddle during a field trip to an apple orchard, it is Tara's daydreams that may lead to the answer.