Picking Apples and Pumpkins (Paperback)

~ (Author), Richard Hutchings (Author, Photographer)

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Product Description

A timely tale of family outing, Picking Apples and Pumpkins shares the pleasures of autumn and the delights of fresh picked favorites, along with carving jack-o-lanterns and baking yummy apple pies. An apple pie recipe is included to ensure a truly delicious ending.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Cartwheel; Moisture Damage edition (September 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590484567
• ISBN-13: 978-0590484565
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 7.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #383,847 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An engaging & beautifully photographed family outing., September 22, 1998

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Picking Apples & Pumpkins is an angaging, informative and beautifully photographed book for kids and parents. Set on a glowing, autumnal New Jersey farm, the book follows a family as they pick apples, have a picknick, select pumpkins, bake a pie and carve jack-o-laterns. Because the story is logically laid out, it has yet to tire our kids; there's so much to learn from the photographs of real people in a real orchard and a real pumpkin patch tended by a real farmer. I can't stess enough the fact that the book's appeal derives from its use of photographs rather than the fancified and grotesque illustrations that seem so popular these days. I hope this book leads to a series of similar efforts.

Sid Fortune, Minneapolis, MN

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars short and simple, includes Halloween, July 17, 2002

By	christinemm - The Thinking Mother (Connecticut, United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This is a very simple book about a caucasion family consisting of a daughter and mother and father who goes on an outing to pick apples and pumpkins in the fall. After the family picks out their pumpkin and apples they go home to make a jack-o-lantern. In the end the girl goes trick or treating with other children. Trick or treaters are dressed as a witch, devil, pirate, ghost, queen, and a monster.

The illustrations are softly done in muted colors of autumn tones. The text is very simple and short, perhaps this would be suitable for beginning readers as well...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great book for classroom, September 23, 2001

By	"[e-mail]" (comfort, tx United States) - See all my reviews

This book is a great book to use with a unit on fall. You can teach the 1st part of the book in the 1st two weeks of a 4 week unit and then teach the 2nd part of the book for the last two weeks of the unit. I have used this book to teach about apples and pumpkins to a two year old class and I will using it again to teach a 4 year old class. Be creative. The children can learn the names of the characters. You can have a picnic lunch in your classroom, just like the characters in the book, do.

You can make applesauce, learn the difference between colors of apples. Have an "apple toss" game or go on a apple hunt, make jack o lanterns. It's a great book to use for fall that doesn't use pumpkins strictly for halloween.