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Ten Apples Up on Top!
Illus. in color. A beginning Beginner Book, this ingenious story uses a
vocabulary of only 75 different words. "A hilarious story in rhyme about a
number of animals who could carry 10 apples on their heads."-- "Elementary
English.
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vocabulary of only 75 different words. "A hilarious story in rhyme about a
number of animals who could carry 10 apples on their heads."-- "Elementary
English.
"
Hardcover, 63 pages
Published
March 12th 1961
by Turtleback Books
(first published 1961)
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Although I was a huge Dr. Seuss fan as a child, I missed Ten Apples Up on Top until my son started reading it. I probably missed it because he originally published it under his Theo LeSieg pseudonym. My son first discovered the edited board book version and the graduated to the full version in first grade. He in turn read it to his sister so now both children love it.
Ten Apples Up on Top is the story of three rollerskating friends, a lion, a dog and a tiger and their competition to see who can b...more
Ten Apples Up on Top is the story of three rollerskating friends, a lion, a dog and a tiger and their competition to see who can b...more
Ten Apples Up on Top
By Dr. Seuss
1) The genre of this picture book would most likely be categorized as a counting book.
2) This picture book depicts a contest that a lion, dog, and tiger have to determine how many apples each animal can balance on his head. They all compete to get ten apples on their head, counting along the way, until they are all chased by a bunch of bears and birds, and eventually run into an apple truck, where everyone ends up with ten apples “up on top”.
3) Critique
a) This c...more
By Dr. Seuss
1) The genre of this picture book would most likely be categorized as a counting book.
2) This picture book depicts a contest that a lion, dog, and tiger have to determine how many apples each animal can balance on his head. They all compete to get ten apples on their head, counting along the way, until they are all chased by a bunch of bears and birds, and eventually run into an apple truck, where everyone ends up with ten apples “up on top”.
3) Critique
a) This c...more
I'm giving this book a five star-rating. Its almost impossible to go wrong with Dr. Suess(writing as Theo. LeSieg), and he proves this yet again.The illustrations in this book are wonderfully simple, with colors that contrast well to make the characters pop off the page. Also, this book could be a magnificent tool in teaching children the numbers 1-10. The apples are on every page and offer a wonderful opportunity to be counted multiple times. The story is exciting and full of action, which is s...more
This book is a fun rhyming and counting book for children. This book counts up to ten and even counts backwards from seven. I also liked how at the end of the book, all of the characters who were not friends in the beggining, became friends at the end when they all balenced ten apples on their heads together. This is a good lesson for children as well.
Extension activity: After reading this book I will allow the children to each draw a picture of themselves with how ever many red apples they want...more
Extension activity: After reading this book I will allow the children to each draw a picture of themselves with how ever many red apples they want...more
Synopsis: "Since 1961, Ten Apples up on Top has been helping preschoolers learn to count and read simultaneously. Simple illustrations and even simpler rhymes make this apple-balancing competition between a dog, a tiger, and a lion a fun, easy place to practice sight words and phonics. Siblings can even take turns reading phrases like "Seven apples up on top. I am so good they will not drop." The inevitable tumbling crash is a great climax for busy toddlers to enjoy, and parents will appreciate...more
I have read every Dr. Seuss book out there and have loved all of them, but this one gets extra kudos, because not only did it help my daughter learn how to count, it also encouraged her love of books! This was one of her absolute favorites as she was learning how to read all by herself and she read it repeatedly. The illustrations by Roy McKie are adorably simple, great book!
I had never read this as a child and was pleased to find it.
We first used it as an early reader, but it works great as a read-aloud for little guys too. The words are fairly easy and mainly phonetic or sight words. It's fun and has a good rhythm as well.
This book would also work well for math - counting as apples are added and taken away, as additional people join, etc.
We first used it as an early reader, but it works great as a read-aloud for little guys too. The words are fairly easy and mainly phonetic or sight words. It's fun and has a good rhythm as well.
This book would also work well for math - counting as apples are added and taken away, as additional people join, etc.
Sep 11, 2012
Rachel White
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
counting-books,
picture-books
This counting book is adorable. It isn't your typical counting book. This book makes counting fun.
This story is a tale of three friends, a lion, a tiger, and a dog, that are all competing to see who can balance the most apples on their head while participating in random daily tasks. While doing this, they are counting to ten.
I feel that students, more than likely in the age group of kindergarten through second grade, will enjoy this book because it is telling a fun and interactive tale while a...more
This story is a tale of three friends, a lion, a tiger, and a dog, that are all competing to see who can balance the most apples on their head while participating in random daily tasks. While doing this, they are counting to ten.
I feel that students, more than likely in the age group of kindergarten through second grade, will enjoy this book because it is telling a fun and interactive tale while a...more
This book would be very enjoyable for young children. It has an opportunity for vocabulary development with rhyming words and repetition. I like how at first the characters were competing against each other but then decided to work together and do the same thing. I also like the use of counting forward and backward.
Extension Activity: Each child would get cut-outs of ten separate apples and a piece of construction paper. They would then be instructed to glue each apple on top of each other as th...more
Extension Activity: Each child would get cut-outs of ten separate apples and a piece of construction paper. They would then be instructed to glue each apple on top of each other as th...more
It's a great counting book for children. Each animal throughout the book continues to add one apple at a time to their head. This continues until they have ten apples on their head and are being chased by bears in order to have apples for themselves. Well eventually the apples fall and fall evenly on all the different animals. Each of them have ten apples on their heads.
LE:
Have pre-cut out apples on construction paper, then have each student lay down on a big sheet of paper and place their feet...more
LE:
Have pre-cut out apples on construction paper, then have each student lay down on a big sheet of paper and place their feet...more
LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! I have read this book so many times and still get excited as the story progresses. The rhyming and the way this book is written builds anticipation and wonder for what is going to happen. This is also a wonderful book to teach counting because of the repetition. Before my youngest could read, we would imitate his older brother after he would read this story to the family. He would count the apples and look at the pictures to tell his very similar version of the story. A wonderf...more
This is one of my favorites from Dr. Seuss! three friends end up competing to see who can balance the most apples on their head with out them dropping. They do all of this crazy stuff to, to see who is better while keeping the apples on their heads. i can really relate to this book because it seems like my fiends and i are always competing to see who can do something better in a friendly way. The characters that come later in the story try to make their apples fall and eventually they all crash...more
You cannot imagine how happy I was to find a Dr. Seuss (AKA Theo LeSieg) book that I have not read. I ran around Kroger reading the rhymes aloud to anyone that would listen, and though I gathered some crazy looks from people ashamed to embrace their inner child, I loved it.
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This book is full of rhymes about animals challenging one another to put more and more apples on top of their heads. Both the rhymes and the illustrations are wonderful.
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This book is full of rhymes about animals challenging one another to put more and more apples on top of their heads. Both the rhymes and the illustrations are wonderful.
This book was about a three animals, a lion, a dog and a tiger, that were putting apples on their heads. The other animals did not like this and they were trying to stop this from happening. Well as this happened, a big tragedy happened to the three friends, and apples fell on everyone's head. They three friends in the beginning of the book were counting how many apples they could put on their heads and they found that they could put ten apples on their heads. This is a good book from children t...more
Ten apples up o top are full of counting. The book also has rhyming words and is full of color and you can practically see the animation coming off the page. The characters in this book seem to have a healthy competition of who can jungle the most apples on top of their head. This could be used in a fun way talk to children about competition.
Learning Experience:
After reading the book break the kids into two small groups and use real apples to add and subtract numbers. Have each child get a turn...more
Learning Experience:
After reading the book break the kids into two small groups and use real apples to add and subtract numbers. Have each child get a turn...more
I like how they made this story into a competition. They did funny things with the apples and would seem to keep children engaged and want to hear the story read over and over again. It has simple words for new readers as well. This book would be good for children 4-7 years old.
For an activity, I would read the book to the class. I would then have the children do an counting/physical fitness activity to see how many apples that they would be able to balance on their heads and see if they can ra...more
For an activity, I would read the book to the class. I would then have the children do an counting/physical fitness activity to see how many apples that they would be able to balance on their heads and see if they can ra...more
Review: Ten Apples Up on Top is an easy read. It teaches children to count one to ten and learn addition. While counting and adding more apples the characters were also creating friendship with one another. I remember this book from my childhood and it was helpful in teaching me how to count.
Learning Experience: After we read the book together as a class, we will get into groups of 3, each group will stack blocks and everyone in the groups will count how many blocks they can stack. The lesson w...more
Learning Experience: After we read the book together as a class, we will get into groups of 3, each group will stack blocks and everyone in the groups will count how many blocks they can stack. The lesson w...more
Feb 14, 2012
Erica
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
favorites,
read-aloud-to-others
My kids love being read to. As we rule, we read 2-5 books together every day. That being said, they don't often ask me to re-read a book, so when they do, I have to mark it as a favorite.
I remember reading this one as a kid and thinking how funny it was to try to balance apples on your head. My mother would never let me try with the store bought ones, which only left the ones from our orchard. Our worm infested orchard. Though I was never squeemish about worms or bugs in my hands, the thought o...more
I remember reading this one as a kid and thinking how funny it was to try to balance apples on your head. My mother would never let me try with the store bought ones, which only left the ones from our orchard. Our worm infested orchard. Though I was never squeemish about worms or bugs in my hands, the thought o...more
This is a good book to tech children how to count. I like it because repeat continuously words, which make easier to children to remember a lot of the them. They can get also the concept of addition.
Extension:
Science project: At snack time, get everyone around the table and because the book is about apples,
there is not a better opportunity to let them know what is this fruit about: its color, shape, smell, how they grow, size. After you talk to them, just cut it and give it to children and ask...more
Extension:
Science project: At snack time, get everyone around the table and because the book is about apples,
there is not a better opportunity to let them know what is this fruit about: its color, shape, smell, how they grow, size. After you talk to them, just cut it and give it to children and ask...more
This is a great counting book for early readers. This book contains many beginning sight words that young readers will be familiar with. It counts up to ten as well as in reverse from seven. The three animals become friends in the end of the book which is a great lesson for children to learn.
After reading this story to my class I would cut an apple half and have the children count together how many seeds were in side. Then we would move over to the art center and paint the halved apples and use...more
After reading this story to my class I would cut an apple half and have the children count together how many seeds were in side. Then we would move over to the art center and paint the halved apples and use...more
Nov 07, 2010
Jennifer Bracken
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
categories-of-picture-books
Beginning Reader Picture Books
In this book, a lion, a tiger, and a dog count one through ten apples and compete to see who can carry the most on their heads. It is written in very short, easy to read sentences for the beginning reader. There is also a lot of repetition in the sentences to help out the beginning readers.
This would be a great book to use in a classroom for the beginning/low level readers you may have. It is one that kids enjoy. They like to have it read to them and to read it them...more
In this book, a lion, a tiger, and a dog count one through ten apples and compete to see who can carry the most on their heads. It is written in very short, easy to read sentences for the beginning reader. There is also a lot of repetition in the sentences to help out the beginning readers.
This would be a great book to use in a classroom for the beginning/low level readers you may have. It is one that kids enjoy. They like to have it read to them and to read it them...more
Ten Apples Up on Top is a wonderful tool to teach children how to count. However, they will see it as a fun and interactive book instead of a lesson. This book follows a few silly characters as they compete with each other to see how many apples they can balance on their heads. I can see the simplicity of the content and word choice as well as the basic counting lesson to be a good book for the younger ages. I think this book would be perfect for preschool students who are just starting to learn...more
Oh what a book this one is! This is a great book for beginner readers and also for beginning math counting from 1-10. The fun rhymes and pictures help the students read and follow the story and a lion walks around with apples on his head. To make it more fun other animals join in to see how many apples they can have on there head!I loved this book growing up and would always try to balance thing on my head after reading it. I would recommend this book and i know i will have it in my classroom li...more
A trio of competitive animals try to out do one another by stacking apples on top of their heads and performing various feats. When all have mastered 10 apples up on top it's a challenge to keep the 10 apples up on top as they encounter an angry bear, and hungry birds to name a few. By story's end everyone has 10 apples up on top and they are just as determined to keep them up there!
Great read aloud and also a book that covers the numbers 1-10 in an exciting way.
Great read aloud and also a book that covers the numbers 1-10 in an exciting way.
Pre-schoolers will love learning to count to ten in a silly tale from Dr. Seuss. Here, a group of animal friends try to balance more and more apples on their head without dropping them, despite increasingly crazy obstacles. Dr. Seuss fans will notice that his beloved illustrations are not present here and his rhymes not as lyrical as in other books, but this little reader will still captivate young readers as it encourages interactive counting participation.
This is a good book to use in the classroom to practice counting and create competition. Help children to develop physical skills, such as coordination, balancing, and friendship as doing games with children about how many objects they can hold on top of their head.
Learning experience: Create a competition game with caps on top of head to practice balance, coordination assigning them a special action or move with the cap on top of head to a specific distance.
Learning experience: Create a competition game with caps on top of head to practice balance, coordination assigning them a special action or move with the cap on top of head to a specific distance.
I get the feeling I'm going to like books the author wrote as Theo Le Sieg more than those he wrote as Dr. Seuss. There's still the nice melodic cadence without the pure insanity. My 9-month-old is entranced with this one. I count the apples for her as the animals add more and more on top of their head. It's nice to see her seem to understand what I'm reading to her. Although, I have to say that her attention starts to falter in the "action scenes" with the mop.
I would rate this a 4 as it teaches children math concept in a fun way.The illustrations are funny showing a tiger balancing apples on a tight rope as well as a dog jump roping on a branch.Like his other books this one too has the same color themes throughout the pages.
Learning Experience: I will bring many apples in green and red and make a pattern, such as red, green, green and ask the children to complete the pattern in small groups.
Learning Experience: I will bring many apples in green and red and make a pattern, such as red, green, green and ask the children to complete the pattern in small groups.
This is an excellent book for counting. I think children will love the characters and all the tricks they can do with apples on their head. The story could have ended a little sooner without the chase at the end. It seemed to drag out at the end.
Lesson: The teacher can set up different counting activities and incorporate addition and subtraction. They can talk about the different animals in discussion time.
Lesson: The teacher can set up different counting activities and incorporate addition and subtraction. They can talk about the different animals in discussion time.
Jun 27, 2012
Toyin Dabiri
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
counting-numbers,
hopping
This book is good for three and four year old children because it teaches them how to count numbers from one to ten. It also familiarize children with rhyming words. Children will be able to do an exercise like hopping which is good for their health.
Learning extensions: The teacher invites the children to the carpet and asks them to count their fingers. Children also hop five times in the class because of their age.
Learning extensions: The teacher invites the children to the carpet and asks them to count their fingers. Children also hop five times in the class because of their age.
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Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, MA. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both carto...more
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Sep 10, 2012 03:12pm