Frank Carlson Library

Explains how apples were brought to America, how they grow, their traditional uses and cultural significance, and some of the varieties grown.

Make cooking super simple with these Super Simple Recipes. This book features a delicious main ingredient kids will love, apples! With step-by-step instructions on how to make the easy and tasty recipes like crispy apple chips and sassy apple salsa, young cooks will jump at the chance to prepare their favorite food in new ways. Includes measuring guides and tools and ingredients lists to help enhance early learning.

In preparation for Halloween night, a family visits Mr. Comstock's farm to pick apples and pumpkins.

It's Apple Harvest Day at the Pinkville Orchard.

Max and Mo are tired of eating corn. Luckily the big ones -- the kids -- just went apple picking. Everyone knows you can make applesauce with apples, but is there anything else you can make with them?

"Young readers will enjoy following along on a trip to the apple orchard. This story features carefully leveled text and full-color photographs. Pairs with the fiction text Picking Apples"--

Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author of Second nature uses botany to explore four basic human desires, sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control, through portraits of four plants that embody them, the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato. Every school child learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers; the bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far...

A child explains the activities that take place at home on a working apple orchard.

"Maria and her family visit an apple orchard and pick apples. Then it's time to turn the apples into applesauce! Every year they use the special pot that has been in the family for generations to make applesauce. Follow each step in the process as everyone helps to make delicious applesauce!"--