Author/Illustrator: Eden Ross Lipson/Mordicai GersteinPlot Summary: A beautifully illustrated story about a family's yearly applesauce-making rituals.
Comments: Another great Junior Library Guild selection. Another great book if you enjoy connecting books to food. This is also the perfect book for reading in the fall and the perfect book for a food-related activity.
Extensions:
1. Using the recipe in the back of the book, students will make applesauce. It is relatively easy to make and they could participate by "cutting" apples with plastic knives, adding spices and stirring. It would be a good experience for students to taste what real applesauce tastes like.
2. After reading the book aloud, students will sample different types of apples. If this were done in Media Center, they would only taste and visit. In the classroom, it could be a lesson color, flavor, writing/describing or researching.
3. In a second or third grade class, the basis for a research assignment(possibly done at home) would be to find as many different types of apples. Students would research a name and description - they wouldn't have to bring them in. The class could see how big of a list they could come up with. The teacher/media specialist could provide the websites.
4. After a read aloud and discussion, students will write and/or draw about one of their own family rituals.
Themes/keywords: applesauce, apples, family life
Age/Reading Level: K-3; ATOS 3.9; Follett 3.9; Lexile 940
Standards:
(Includes similar standards for kindergarten, first and third grades)
ELA2W2 The student writes in a variety of genres, including narrative, informational, persuasive, and response to literature.
ELA2W1 The student begins to demonstrate competency in the writing process.
ELA2R4 The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text.
Publisher's Info: Roaring Brook Press, New York. 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-59643-216-1
ISBN-10: 1-59643-216-0
Awards/Review Sources:
School Library Journal 09/01/09 | Publishers Weekly starred 07/20/09 |
| Booklist 08/01/09 | New York Times 09/13/09 |
| Kirkus Review 07/15/09 |
Genre/Dewey: Fiction; Easy/Everybody
Websites:
Review from the New York Times Book Review - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/books/review/Marcus-t.html. The author of this book was the children's editor of The New York Times from 1984 until 2005 and died earlier this year. The reviewer was the author of "Minders of Make Believe," a fabulous book about children's literature.
Eden Ross Lipson's obituary in the New York Times. She had a distinguished career in the field of children' literature.
Notes for Booktalk: Dekalb Farmer's Market is a great place to buy different types of apples
Vocabulary: names of apples
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