Applesauce Season
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A taste of fall: Celebrated editor Eden Lipson and Caldecott Medal winner Mordicai Gerstein celebrate a fall family ritual in Applesauce Season, a picture book rich with the colors and flavors of the season.When the first apples of the season–Ida Red and Paula Red, Twenty Ounce, McIntosh, and Ginger Gold–show up in the city markets, it’s time to take out the big pot and make applesauce. A lovingly recounted description of a family’s applesauce-making ritual describes the buying, peeling, cooking and stirring; the wait for the sauce to cool and the first taste. Mordicai Gerstein’s paintings are full of the colors and flavors of the season: red apples, orange leaves, blue skies. Here’s a lovely picture book celebrating an American family tradition.
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Mordicai Gerstein (1935-2019) is the author and illustrator of The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, winner of the Caldecott Medal, and has had many books named New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. Gerstein was born in Los Angeles in 1935. He remembers being inspired as a child by images of fine art, which his mother cut out of Life magazine, and by children’s books from the library: “I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.” He attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and then got a job in an animated cartoon studio that sent him to New York, where he designed characters and thought up ideas for TV commercials. When a writer named Elizabeth Levy asked him to illustrate a humorous mystery story about two girls and a dog, his book career began, and soon he moved on to writing as well as illustrating.The author of more than forty books, Gerstein lived in Westhampton, Massachusetts.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781596432161
- Publication Date
- August 4, 2009
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook Press
- Page Count
- 40
- Reading Age
- 4 - 8 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2009042735
- Lexile® Level
- AD820L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~S
- ATOS® Book Level
- 3.9
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 131134
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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