Eight going on nine, Rose Wilder is beginning to settle into her new life in Missouri, the Land of the Big Red Apple. Her father is building their farmhouse and

Pepo the pink pig and Lolo the yellow chick work together to obtain an apple from a branch too high for either of them to reach.

Karla Gudeon's inimitable, spirited artwork follows the life cycle of one red apple: from a fruit growing on a tree to store, to picnic, to seed, to sapling and

Photographs and simple text introduce the concept of color.

There are ten red apples hanging on the tree. Yippee, fiddle-dee-fee! But one by one, along come the farm animals and soon there is just one apple left. .. The