Apples Grow on a Tree

How Fruits and Vegetables Grow

by Mari Schuh, Gail Saunders-Smith (Consultant Editor)

Simple text and photographs describe how apples grow on trees.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Plants

24 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Mari Schuh is the author of hundreds of nonfiction books for beginning readers, covering topics from tomatoes to tornadoes. She lives in the Midwest with her husband and their sassy house rabbit. Learn more about her at marischuh.com.

Reviews

[Elizabeth Guzman · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a small little book about how apples grow, on tress. I found this book to be slightly interesting and informative. A young child would benefit from this knowledge though. For an informational children’s book, it does seem a bit dry cut. I think more little fun facts could have been thrown in rather than just stating happenings.
For classroom use this could be a good book to use if you are going to take a field trip to an apple orchard. This book supplies students with the basics of how apples grow. The real life pictures might help in understanding also, being able to actually see an apple trees real growth process.

[Autum Rock · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative book! It’s about nuts and seeds too. Not just about apples.

[Hilary · Rating 1 out of 5]

This topic, fruit-bearing trees/apples, appears in many other volumes, many of which are more successful in covering the concept/topic. The text, which seems geared to preschoolers, describes and illustrates how apples grow on trees. The vocabulary is an uneven mix of simple and challenging terms. If the challenging terms incorporated definitions in the text, the result would be more readable. Instead terms like “fertilize,” go undefined unless the reader turns to the glossary, which reads, “when pollen from the male part of the flower joins with the ovum from the female part of the flower to produce a seed.” “Ovum” is not defined. Textual context clues are enhanced with images to aid novice readers in text comprehension. Still, beginning readers will find this book challenging to read.
Springboards to discussions are provided by statements such as “Fruits such as olives, peaches, and avocados come from trees.” As a concept book, this offers some advanced food for thought.

[CFAITC]

A simple book about apples and how they are grown from seed to fruit.