Product Description

Ten red apples hanging on a tree. Yippee, fiddle-dee-fee! But they are not there for long. Horse, cow, donkey, pig, hen, and the other farm animals each eat one. "Save one for me," calls the farmer. But what about the farmer's wife?

Count on Pat Hutchins to solve the problem happily. And count the red apples before they are all gone!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #485750 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04
• Released on: 2000-04-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780688167974
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
Bold colors dominate Hutchins's (Titch) gouache paintings, framed in fire-engine red and featuring characters depicted as hinged wooden people and animals. The rhyming, sing-song text counts down from 10 as a succession of farm animals consume apples from a tree, beginning with a horse: "Ten red apples hanging on the tree./ Yippee, fiddle-dee-fee!/ Horse came and ate one,/ chomp, chomp, chomp./ Neigh, neigh, fiddle-dee-fee./ 'Horse!' cried the farmer./ 'Save some for me!' " For each verse, an animal takes its fruit, then moves to the right side of the spread, creating a cumulative visual effect. After the ninth animal helps itself to the tree's bounty, a sole apple remains for the farmer, but none for his wife, who hopes to bake a pie. In the closing spreads, the farmer spies another tree bearing 10 apples, setting youngsters up to start all over again. Hutchins's repetitive narrative, with its long vowel sounds coupled with crayon-bright toy characters, will invite audience participation and boost beginning readers' self-confidence. Ages 3-up.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2-A concept book that blends rhyming, counting, repetition, and animal sounds into a charming, folksy story. Hutchins's trademark wooden figures-including the farming couple from Changes, Changes (Macmillan, 1971)-populate this delightful tale in which a farmer watches his animals eat bright red apples from the tree. "'Horse!' cried the farmer. 'Save some for me!'" When there is just one apple left, he picks it ("Yippee, fiddle-dee-fee!"). Then along comes his wife, who finds "No red apples to bake in a pie. Fie, fie, fiddle-dee-fee!" The farmer saves the day when he finds another tree and they fill the basket with "More red apples hanging on a tree." The bouncy singsong text begs to be read aloud. The rhyme is easy and smooth, with a catchy refrain. An added surprise is the appearance of Rosie the hen from Rosie's Walk (Macmillan, 1968). The gouache paintings are bright and clear, and the palette includes many colors beyond the primary tones of red, blue, and yellow. There is a cheery border at the top and bottom of each page. The endpapers show the happy couple counting apples from 1 to 10 and back again. A delicious selection from a master of simplicity.
Beth Tegart, Oneida City Schools, NY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Hutchins will once again get the attention of new and prereaders, this time with a brightly colored and patterned bucolic countdown. As a farmer admires the red apples on his tree, a horse nips off one, a cow another, a donkey yet another, and so on until there's one left. Just as the farmer says, "Good, you saved one for me," along comes his wife, seeking apples for a pie. In a series of simply drawn country scenes with floral borders at top and bottom, people and animals are depicted as jointed wooden figures. The apples are there to count, not only on the tree, but lined up above the rhymed text, too, next to large numerals. As she does in The Doorbell Rang (1986), Hutchins releases the more-guests-than-goodies tension by going outside the box: "Look!" cries the pointing farmer, "Another apple tree!" What better way to end this sunny celebration of sharing, counting, problem-solving, and luscious red apples? John Peters
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Customer Reviews

GREAT BOOK!
Great counting book for younger children ages 3-6. Apples are counted one by one and illustrations are good in that they are step by step and easy to understand for a young child.

Ten Red Apples
Ten red apples hanging on a tree
Yippee, fiddle-dee-fee!
Horse came and ate one,
chomp, chomp, chomp.
Neigh, neigh, fiddle-dee-fee
"Horse!" cried the farmer.
"Save some for me!"

Languagewise, this is a lively, rhyming book and as you can see, those were the only basic words used throughout the story except of course, each page would have a different number and animal that came to eat the apple. Definitely great for your baby and toddlers especially if you read it in a sing song fashion. Not only the young child will learn about the numbers, but also the animal names and the sounds of the animals. And since some of the words are repeated page by page until there's no apple left, this book is great for shared reading between you and your child. As your child goes into kindergarten, it is time to whip up the book again and learn subtraction!

Great for learning and interacting!
I use this book in my pre-kindergarten. The children love to hear the animal sounds and they are anxiously awaiting their part at the end of each page "Save some for me". The love being able to interact with the book. The story is very repetitive so it's easy to keep the children's attention.