Up, Up, Up! It's Apple-Picking Time [Library Binding]

Jody Fickes Shapiro (Author), Kitty Harvill (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up

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

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 3-This book succeeds more at describing an experience than in telling a strong story. It's time to pick apples on Grandma and Grandpa's farm and then sell the fruit at the roadside stand. The family drinks in the apple aroma, "Apple smell is in the air-/apple perfume everywhere," and tastes the fruit, "The apple is cool and crunchy and sweet." Apples are described as big as softballs. At the end of the adventure, the family dances to old jazz records. The paper-collage, color illustrations highlight the warm and jovial interactions. The varying perspectives of the art nicely complement this sensory experience. A pleasant addition to harvest units and storytimes.
Linda M. Kenton, San Rafael Public Library, CA
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"Just in time for apple picking and apple pies, this "warm and jovial" harvest time picture book looks behind the scene at a family-run orchard." (School Library Journal ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Library Binding: 32 pages
• Publisher: Holiday House; 1 edition (September 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823416100
• ISBN-13: 978-0823416103
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 11.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,714,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Destined To Be A Classic, October 3, 2003

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Linda Stewart-Oaten (Santa Barbara, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Up, Up, Up! It's Apple-Picking Time (Library Binding)

In this hurried world, Jody Shapiro's lovely book "Up, Up, Up! It's Apple Picking Time" (beautifully illustrated by Kitty Harvill) captures perfectly the warmth of extended family life and the wonder of new experiences. It's a simple story told in sensory rich language; giving us red, green, yellow and pink apples, "cool and crunchy and sweet," with evocative names like Anna, Stark Red, Winesap, Arkansas Black and Winter Banana. Along with Myles and Amber-the brother and sister in the story-- we breathe in the perfume of apple cider and "fresh-baked apple dumplings, floating like islands in a sea of milk".
But, best of all is the time spent with family, picking and selling apples, and lying on a rug in front of the fireplace at the end of the day, when Grandpa plays his old jazz records and everyone dances.
"Up, Up, Up! It's Apple Picking Time" has become one of my two-year-old grandson's most requested stories. Together, we've picked (Gordon)apples from a backyard tree and made "Granny's Microwave-Baked Apples," using the delicious and foolproof recipe at the end of the book. This is a book to share with a child you love.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Midwest Librarian's Delight, November 9, 2003

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Dolores Silverstein "dolores s" (Bloomfield, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Up, Up, Up! It's Apple-Picking Time (Library Binding)

Apple picking time in Michigan is very special. We even have dwarf trees for little ones to reach. Preschool storytimes love the flow of the story and the bright colorful illustrations. You can almost taste the sweetness and sense the crispness of the apples. Up, Up, Up!: It's Apple-Picking Time would make a great felt board or puppet presentation. Take it from a grandmother and a children's librarian, Jody Shapiro's story of picking and selling apples and time spent with different generations within a family fits the bill

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING AMAZING!!!, July 31, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Up, Up, Up! It's Apple-Picking Time (Library Binding)

What a team Jody Shapiro and Kitty Harvill make! This book, a delightful story about a family's time on the ancestral apple farm, is brought to vivid life by the most captivating creative illustrations (done through what looks like constructing images with multicolored papers). You and your child will cherish reading this book over and over AND it will make you both dash to the kitchen to eat apple everthing. This book is good for the soul and the health!