Literature Guide for Eden Ross Lipson and Mordicai Gerstein’s Applesauce Season

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Applesauce Season is the quintessential fall book: a young narrator describes with wonder the coming of apple season and the family food traditions that follow suit, subtly teaching readers all the while about apple varieties and the natural flow of the fruit’s season. Readers follow the narrator from farmers’ market, to kitchen, to table again and again while learning not only the specifics of applesauce, but the many other ways in which apples can be preserved and enjoyed during the fall.

Set in an urban area, the story brings concepts, skills, and traditions generally associated with rural living into a modern city. Rather than being grown and harvested in the narrator’s backyard or community, the apples that narrator so loves are sold at a neighborhood farmers’ market, introducing the idea of food systems to readers. 

Applesauce Season is perfect for young readers, and can serve as a catalyst for a wide variety of learning activities. Themes of food, farming, pomology, cultural identity, family history, and responsibility all arise within the book’s pages – beautifully illustrated by western MA local Mordicai Gerstein!

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