Apples and How They Grow

by Laura Driscoll, Tammy Smith (Illustrator)

Learn all about how a seed turns into an apple in this informative nonfiction reader.

Genres: Childrens, Nonfiction

32 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2003

About the author

Laura Driscoll is the author of numerous first chapter and beginning reader books, including We Are Twins and The Bravest Cat! She lives in central Connecticut with her husband and two children.

Reviews

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A Penguin Young Readers Level 2 book. The book isn't much to write home about, but it does introduce the idea of grafting branches onto trees, so that might have some value.

[Christine Grant · Rating 3 out of 5]

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Explains how apples grow. I have always enjoyed this book.

[Lisa Leland · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading Level: 1.2

Summary: This book gives a step by step approach to understanding how apple trees grow and how they produce particular kinds of apples. This informational test could be used for studying the cycle of plants. It shows the entire cycle of an apple ranging from when the tree is bare with only buds, and takes you through each stage of the flower becoming an apple. There is labeling and sequence throughout so you can see what the author is explaining to you. The book explains how each part of the growing process is important especially the bees and insects that help pollinate the flower.

Characteristics that support the genre: Series, Plant Growth and Development

Bookshelf Mentor Writing Traits: Students could be asked to rewrite or summarize the sequential order of growing an apple. Beginning with a seed and ending with the apple on the tree.

Classroom Integration/Mini-Lesson/Content Connections: Science - The plant cycle. Stages of an apple. Growing a plant from a seed. Art- create your own poster with the plant cycle of an apple.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really great science type book for young readers (or in my case a little 3 year old listener) explaining about how apple trees come from seeds...BUT if you only plant a seed that the tree may or may not produce fruit...and explains how to mesh a limb from a baby fruit tree to a growing tree and the tree becomes what that limb is. Really neat how they explained this on a child level but was accurate with it.

[CFAITC]

Find out how an apple seed grows into an apple tree in this beginning reader.