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10 best books like Johnny Appleseed (Reeve Lindbergh): Rain Makes Applesauce, Flora's Very Windy Day, Ox-Cart Man, Bear Has a Story to Tell, How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?, Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden, The Apple Pie Tree, The Pumpkin Book

Rain Makes Applesauce
AuthorJulian Scheer
ISBN0823400913
The stars are made of lemon juice...
...and rain makes applesauce.
Elbows grow on a tickle tree...
...and rain makes applesauce.
Oh, you're just talking silly talk.

This is a book of silly talk. It doesn't pretend to be anything else. And yet it is an extraordinary creation,...
Flora's Very Windy Day
AuthorJeanne Birdsall
ISBN0618986766
When Flora and her pesky little brother, Crispin, are whisked away by a swirling and swooping wind, she gets the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to give her brother away. With tempting offers from a dragonfly, the man in the moon, and even the wind itself, she will find it difficult to choose. But...
Ox-Cart Man
AuthorDonald Hall
ISBN0140504419
Winner of the Caldecott Medal

Thus begins a lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing seasons in the life of one New Englander and his family. The oxcart man packs his goods - the wool from his sheep, the shawl his wife made, the mittens his daughter knitted, and the...
Bear Has a Story to Tell
AuthorPhilip C. Stead
ISBN1596437456
It was almost winter and Bear was getting sleepy.
But first, Bear had a story to tell...

Bear found his friend Mouse, but Mouse was busy gathering seeds and didn't have time to listen to a story. Then Bear saw his friend Duck, but Duck was getting ready to fly south. What about his friend Toad?...
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?
AuthorMargaret McNamara
ISBN0375840141
For curious kids, this explores skip counting and estimation in a fun pumpkin-themed classroom experiment. "How many seeds are in a pumpkin?" Mr. Tiffin asks his class as they gather around the big, medium, and small pumpkins on his desk. Robert, the biggest kid, guesses that the largest one has a million...
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
AuthorLois Ehlert
ISBN0152661972
While I certainly do much enjoy the bright and expressive collage like illustrations (especially of the woodpeckers which just happen to also be my favourite birds), I personally think that it would have been better for Lois Ehlert to have either penned a non-fiction book about sugar maples (and woodpeckers)...
The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree
AuthorGail Gibbons
ISBN0152712453
This book about nature and the changing seasons focuses on a young boy and a very special apple tree. In Gail Gibbons’s bright illustrations, Arnold collects apple blossoms in spring, builds a tree house in summer, makes apple pie and cider in the fall, and hangs strings of popcorn and berries for the...
Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden
AuthorGeorge Levenson
ISBN1582460787
We can be sure of this: It's a circle without end. It'¬?s pumpkin seeds to pumpkins To pumpkin seeds again! This treat of a picture book comes cloaked in the colors of fall. Bouncy verse and glowing photographs show a backyard pumpkin patch move through its natural cycle -- a bug'¬?s eye and a bird's high...
The Apple Pie Tree
AuthorZoe Hall
ISBN0590623826
Two sisters observe their apple tree through the seasons in this charming picture-book for younger children, delighting in the robin's nest in its branches, admiring its soft pink blossoms and growing fruit, and playing in its welcome shade. When fall comes, and the apples are ready for picking, the...
The Pumpkin Book
AuthorGail Gibbons
ISBN0823416364
From an acclaimed science author, here's everything about pumpkins--including how they grow!

In this cheerfully-illustrated, simply-presented book, children can learn about the growth cycle and many varieties of pumpkins, and even how to plant their own. Award-winning author Gail...
Too Many Pumpkins
AuthorLinda White
ISBN0823413209
What can you do with too many pumpkins?

Rebecca Estelle has hated pumpkins ever since she was a girl when pumpkins were often the only food her family had. When an enormous pumpkin falls off a truck and smashes in her yard, she shovels dirt over the pieces and forgets about them. But those slimy...
In the Middle of Fall
AuthorKevin Henkes
In the Middle of Fall is the type of book Kevin Henkes and his wife, the fine artist Laura Dronzek, work together on best: a simple, spare story celebrating nature's glories through understated words and paintings. Autumn is perhaps the most sensuous of the four seasons. Brightly hued leaves clinging...
The Little Scarecrow Boy
AuthorMargaret Wise Brown
ISBN0060778911
The celebrated author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny joins forces with the Caldecott Medalist of Smoky Night to tell this tender story about loving and enduring family relationships.

With words by the renowned Margaret Wise Brown and illustrations by David Diaz, this treasured...
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