From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! - Hardcover

Chernesky, Felicia Sanzari

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080756513X ISBN 13: 9780807565131

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company, 2015

Synopsis

Grab the wagon, it's a bright autumn day and the trees are full of ripe, red apples! There's an apple festival underway at the farm and lots of work to do making cider. This visit finishes with a cider doughnut and a cup of freshly pressed cider. DELICIOUS! Told in crisp, action-driven rhymes from a young child's point of view, From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! is a realistic account of how apple cider is pressed, flavored with the charm and vigor of a harvest celebration.

About this title

About the Author

Felicia Sanzari Chernesky is the author of Pick a Circle, Gather Squares: A Fall Harvest of Shapes; Cheers for a Dozen Ears: A Summer Crop of Counting; Sugar White Snow and Evergreens: A Winter Wonderland of Color; and Sun Above and Blooms Below: A Springtime of Opposites. A longtime editor, Felicia works nestled among her husband, an assortment of children, her mother, a tuxedo tabby, and several tanks of fish. She has no privacy whatsoever, but finds inspiration in the cacophony and chaos of ordinary life. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she is (still!) completing an MFA in Poetry with an Emphasis in Versecraft at Western State Colorado University. She lives with her family in glamorous New Jersey. Visit her online at feliciachernesky.com.

From School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 2—As she did with the delightful Pick a Circle, Gather Squares (Albert Whitman, 2013), Chernesky has taken a familiar subject and given it a fresh presentation. A little girl and her mother have gone apple picking. The rhyming couplets flow smoothly ("Reaching up we take our pick,/twist and pluck them. That's the trick.") and include lovely verbal images. The book proceeds from the apple-picking process to cider-making and ends with an apple festival. While Chernesky captures the enthusiasm of this fun fall activity in words, Patton captures it with her energetic digital cartoon illustrations as well. The pictures include details to pore over and engage the eye without being overly busy. In addition, a wealth of information, such as the names of various apples and the appearance of an actual cider press, is provided in the artwork. VERDICT Even if you are awash in apple books, this title will be an attractive and useful addition.—Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ

Edition details

• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 080756513X
• ISBN 13: 9780807565131
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Patton Julia