Friday, August 9, 2013

The Apple Orchard Riddle by Margaret McNamara illustrated by G. Brian Karas

Mr. Tiffin's class takes a field trip to an apple orchard.  While they are learning about apples and their products and how an orchard is managed, he gives them a riddle to solve.
The book is full of apple and orchard facts yet the individual children's personalities are well developed for a picture book.  As the story continues and facts are related in story format, the children try to solve the riddle.  Tara, the class day dreamer, slowly solves the riddle.
The last page in the book lists some more facts about apple orchards.
The end pages have drawings of different apples with their names.
Great book to read before an apple orchard field trip.
**Check out this team's other great fall book How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?.  Mr. Tiffin is the teacher is this book too.

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