This book will work for toddlers but it will work for much older children too, and following up reading the book by baking an apple (or other fruit) pie will make the book even more fun, and educational too. AND, for vegan families, the only non-vegan ingredient is butter, so it’s incredibly easy to substitute Earth Balance spread and make this pie, and personally I’d use whole wheat pastry flour too, for the crust, although it still wouldn’t be that healthy a project: LOTS of sugar I guess that could be changed to another ingredient too, or possibly simply left out if sufficiently sweet apples are used! This book tells about a special tree in the yard, and shows its growth through all the seasons, and concluding with the apples being made into a pie. There’s a recipe for apple pie in the back. This is a wonderful book to show children how an apple tree can become an apple pie, and hopefully can become apples as well.

I normally love collage art and I did enjoy these illustrations. Two sisters rejoice as the colorful blossoms on their tree develop into big, red, and ready-to-pick. This interactive read aloud lesson plan with printables and activities pack includes: a Common Core Read Aloud Lesson Plan for The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall, Seasons sequencing activity Making Apple Pie cut and glue sequencing activity, Apple Poems (2 Levels) and poetry lesson plans with foundational skills focus. I love books that show how food gets from tree (or ground) to table. Buy a cheap copy of The Apple Pie Tree book by Zoe Hall. The Apple Pie Tree: Two young sisters follow the progress of their apple tree through the seasons, from a bare tree in the winter, through the pink blossoms of the spring, to the apple picking in the autumn.

This is a great book for showing a year in the life of an apple tree, some robins, bees, the cycle of nature, and two young sisters who have that apple tree in their back yard. Series: Holidays & Seasons, Apple Season.

The apple pie tree by zoe hall