apples

Two children spend the year anticipating the fruit their apple tree will bear, only to have a wily thief upset their plans.

An overview of growing apples, from planting and harvesting to the grocery shelves.

Introductory material provides a note to adult helpers, and then covers safety tips, cooking basics, measurements and conversions, cooking terms, and the necessary tools and ingredients. Eight simple recipes follow: four dessert options, a sandwich, chips, salsa, and, intriguingly, pickled apples.

Johnny Boo, whose muscles have become droopy and weak because he eats too much ice cream, runs into the Ice Cream Monster, who shows Johnny and Squiggles that eating apples makes one strong and happy.

A family works together to buy, peel, cook, and stir apples for the homemade applesauce they make every year.

Describes the life cycle of an apple tree and how different varieties of apples are grown and harvested.

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.

A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and his family to Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century. Based loosely on the life of Henderson Luelling.

Myles and his family go to his grandparents' apple ranch, where they have a wonderful time picking and selling apples together.

Members of the Rabbit family visit an apple orchard, where they have fun picking apples and discovering their many uses. Includes a recipe for applesauce, directions for a craft activity, and sayings about apples.