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How Do Apples Grow?
Product Description
▼▲"How do Apples Grow?" is part of the "Let's-Read-and-Find-Out" series that teaches children about basic scientific concepts. Kids will learn what happens to apple trees throughout the year, including all about dormancy, buds, leaves, flowers, the role of sunlight, and how apples are part of the apple flower. This is a stage 2 book, which introduces basic science concepts to young children and helps satisfy their curiosity about how the world works. Ages 5-9. Kindergarten - Grade 3. Lexile Measure 550L. 32 pages, softcover.
Product Information
▼▲| Title: How Do Apples Grow? By: Betsy Maestro Illustrated By: Giulio Maestro, Betsy Maestro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 Vendor: HarperCollins Publication Date: 1993 | Dimensions: 7.98 X 9.46 X 0.13 (inches) Weight: 5 ounces ISBN: 0064451178 ISBN-13: 9780064451178 Ages: 4-8 Series: Let's Read and Find Out Science Stock No: WW451170 |
Publisher's Description
▼▲Read and find out about how apples grow in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.
This is a clear and appealing environmental science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom.
Questions addressed in this book include:
- Did you know that when you bite into an apple, you're eating part of a flower?
- Why do apple trees need bees to make apples?
- How does the tree feed the gorwing apples and make them ready to eat?
Read and find out in the proven winner How Do Apples Grow!
This is a Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:
- hands-on and visual
- acclaimed and trusted
- great for classrooms
Top 10 reasons to love LRFOs:
- Entertain and educate at the same time
- Have appealing, child-centered topics
- Developmentally appropriate for emerging readers
- Focused; answering questions instead of using survey approach
- Employ engaging picture book quality illustrations
- Use simple charts and graphics to improve visual literacy skills
- Feature hands-on activities to engage young scientists
- Meet national science education standards
- Written/illustrated by award-winning authors/illustrators & vetted by an expert in the field
- Over 130 titles in print, meeting a wide range of kids' scientific interests
Books in this series support the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.
Author Bio
▼▲Betsy Maestro taught kindergarten and first grade for eleven years and earned a master's degree in elementary guidance. She has collaborated with her husband, Giulio, on more than forty-five books for young children, including The Story of the Statue of Liberty, A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution, an ALA Notable Book, as well as Delivery Van: Words for Town and Country and All Aboard Overnight: A Book of Compound Words. She lives in Connecticut.
Giulio Maestro is an author and artist who has illustrated more than 100 books for young readers, including Liberty or Death: The American Revolution: 1763-1783, which was co-written with his wife, Betsy Maestro, and What Do you Hear When Cows Sing: And Other Silly Riddles, which was co-written with his son, Marco Maestro. He lives with his wife, Betsy, in Old Lyme, Connecticut
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