The Giant Apple

Scheffler, Ursel

ISBN 10: 087614413X ISBN 13: 9780876144138

Publisher: Carolrhoda Books, 1990

Synopsis

In their quest to win a prize at the harvest festival, the residents of Appleville neglect their crops in order to grow a giant apple and discover during the winter that fame and honor do not fill empty stomachs

About this title

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 3 --This is a picture book in folktale style about a village of dummkopfs, but readers may miss the point; the text is without wit or bounce. The citizens of Appleville always lose to the people of Beet Valley at the annual Harvest Festival. Resolutely, they decide to concentrate all their energy on growing a great big enormous apple, and win the best and biggest contest--only to be left eating applesauce, apple donuts, and apple fritters all winter. Eventually, they have to buy from the folks in Beet Valley the vegetables they should've been raising all along. The story is told in a straightforward and pedestrian manner, and falls flat. Brix-Henker's illustrations are in colored pencil and watercolor washes in shades of brown, green, and orange; they provide some of the humor missing in the text. Libraries looking for funny picture books on giant veggies will not find it here. Look instead to Westcott's The Giant Vegetable Garden (Little, 1981) and Tolstoy's The Great Big Enormous Turnip (Watts, 1968; o.p.). --Kay McPherson, Central Atlanta-Fulton Public Library
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 087614413X
• ISBN 13: 9780876144138
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 30
• Illustrator: Brix-Henker Silke