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Apples of Your Eye
(Rookie Read-About Science Series)

By Allan Fowler

This simple book provides full-color photos and easy-to-read text on 8 different types of apples and how they are grown. Softcover, 32 pages. Ages 4-8.

Apples of Your Eye CP-0260......$5.95

Apples
(Bank Street College of Education's The Best Children's Books of the Year Winner
& A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book)

By Jacqueline Farmer

This wonderfully comprehensive book covers the history of apples, apple folklore, and the process of harvesting, the eight varieties of apple, including their appearance, texture, flavor, and best uses to present an interesting and fun book on apples. Includes information on everything from grafting and pruning, pollination and fertilization, and harvesting, to how to make apple cider and a recipe for Traditional Apple Pie. Softcover, 32 pages. Ages 5-10.

Apples (Jacqueline Farmer) CB-6953......$6.95

From Blossom to Fruit

By Gail Saunders-Smith, Ph.D.

Text and photographs describe the growth of an apple from blossom to ripe fruit, ready to be picked. Softcover, 24 pages. Ages 9-12.

From Blossom to Fruit CS-9525......$5.95

Introduce young children to a variety of farms of different sizes, in different climates and growing different crops. Softcover, 16 pages. Ages 4-8.

My Apple Tree (Mi manzano) English CS-7073……$5.95 Spanish CS-0843……$5.95

Help kids learn about fractions using their favorite tool - food! Using apples, kids learn that fractions - and even addition of fractions - are fun! Softcover, 32 pages. Ages 8 and up.

Apple Fractions SB-9011......$5.99

Big, colorful, real-life photos bring plant life cycles to life in this easy-to-read book. Covering the growth stages of plants and trees through simple text and clear diagrams, readers will marvel at how plants grow and change just like them. Includes a glossary, a list of internet reference sites, and index. Library Binding, 24 pages. Ages 4-8.

The Life Cycle of an Apple Tree CS-7092......$17.99

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"Lift, twist, pluck. Ta-da! It's a yummy apple!" It is apple-picking time and that means hundreds of delicious apples are ripe - but the business of growing apples can be tricky. In this All Aboard Science Reader, young readers learn that the seed from a certain apple, may not produce the same apples on its branches when it grows, or any at all. Softcover, 32 pages. Ages 4-8.

Apples and How They Grow PP-2755......$3.99

From what a life cycle is, the many different kinds of apples, and the many ways to eat them, to an apple tree's complete life cycle from branch, bud and blossom, to big ripe apple, this life cycles book is information packed with real-life photos. Includes an 'Important Words' glossary and index in back, plus plenty of interesting facts about apples like, "applesauce was the first food eaten in space." Library Binding, 24 pages. Ages 4-8.

Life Cycles: Apples AB-7010......$16.95

Have you ever eaten part of a flower? You have if you have eaten an apple! Find out how an apple grows from a bud to a flower to a fruit. Softcover, 32 pages. Ages 5-9.

How Do Apples Grow? HC-4451......$5.99

Apple trees grow in more parts of the world than any other fruit tree. They have been in existence for about two million years. From blossom to pollination to picking, here is information about how they grow, their various parts, and the different varieties. Instructions on how to plant and care for an apple tree are included. Juice, jelly, cider, pie or right off the tree...apples are delicious! Hardcover or Softcover, 32 Pages. Ages 4-8.

Apples (Gail Gibbons) Hardcover HH-1669H......$16.95 Softcover HH-1669S......$6.95