Follows a family as they welcome the fall season with a trip to an apple orchard, explains the life cycle of an apple from seed to the fall harvest, and describes ways people use apples in baking and to make apple cider.

"The Apple Lover's Cookbook is more than a recipe book. It's a celebration of apples in all their incredible diversity, as well as an illustrated guide to 70 popular (and rare-but-worth-the-search) apple varieties. Each has its own complete biography with entries for best use, origin, availability, season, appearance, taste, and texture. Amy Traverso organizes these 70 varieties into four categories-firm-tart, tender-tart, firm-sweet, and tender-sweet-and...

An Alphabet book describing how friends Fox and Bear learn about apples from buds and blossoms to apple pie.

Describes how apples are grown, harvested, and used, and details facts about apples in history, literature, and our daily lives.

Simple text introduces the process of growing and havesting apples.

"Every fall Maria and her family make applesauce together. They visit an orchard to pick the apples, and then they spend the day at Grandma's washing, cutting, and cooking them in the special applesauce pot the family has used for generations. Maria loves each step in the process--which ends with delicious applesauce! As the air turns crisp and the leaves begin to fall, gather family and friends to enjoy the apple harvest!" --book jacket

Through the seasons, apples grow from buds to blossoms to fruit and become part of people's lives and celebrations.

"How does a seed turn into an apple tree? You will find out in this book!"--back cover.

"Discover the well-loved tradition of growing and picking apples - a fruit that has been in existence for about two million years. Explore the history of the apple but also the way that families and farmers grow and care for apple trees today, from planting to selling, to turning them into delicious treats and using them for classic games like "bobbing for apples" on Halloween. Detailed pictures introduce readers to the botany of apples too. Experience...

Looks at the secret history of the apple in North America, and explores the intricate link between agriculture, settlement, and human relationships.