Is there anything better than when the leaves start to turn colors, the anticipation of a new year of learning is in the air, and the trees adorn red, green, and yellow edible treasures?! I don’t think so and I feel that no childhood autumn is complete without some apple-themed learning! If you agree and plan on doing some apple-themed reading with your preschoolers this year, check out these 12 apple books for preschoolers.
The Big List of Apple Books for Preschoolers
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1. We Harvest Apples in Fall by Rebecca Felix
Uniqueness of This Book: Uses Text Features in a Young Children’s Book
Preschool Age Focus: 2+
We Harvest Apples in Fall is a nonfiction book appropriate for preschoolers to teach them about orchards, the apple life cycle, and the uses of apples. This book is a perfect way to start introducing nonfiction reading and text features at a young age. It is age-appropriate while also utilizing the features of nonfiction books such as table of contents, labels, and a glossary.
2. Apple Countdown by Joan Holub and Jan Smith
Unique Feature: Counts Backwards
Preschool Age Focus: 2+
Integrate math practice while reading about apples. While there are many counting-up books, it is often harder to find counting-backward books. Counting backward is an important foundational skill for subtraction. Additionally, you can practice one-to-one correspondence by counting the apples on each page, or simply enjoy the story of the kids visiting the apple farm.
3. Apple Pie Picnic by Alicia Duran and Brian Fitzgerald
Unique Feature: Spanish Words
Preschool Age Focus: 2+
Apple Pie Picnic is a great story about a girl named Rosa and her apple tree. A fun feature of this book is the usage of Spanish words throughout the book, It’s a great opportunity to talk about other languages as well as to explain some new words.
4. Apples A-Z by Margaret McNamara and Jake Parker
Unique Feature: Apple Themed Alphabet Book
Preschool Age Focus: 2+
Apples A-Z is a great opportunity to talk about letter sounds. As you go through the letters of the alphabet each page has an apple-themed word that starts with a letter of the alphabet. This provides a lot of learning about apples as well as helps you to explore sound or letter naming knowledge with your child.
5. Applesauce Day by Lisa J. Amstutz and Talitha Shipman
Unique Feature: Cook Vocabulary and Book-to-Life Connections
Preschool Age Focus: 2+
This is a sweet book about a family tradition of making applesauce. It provides a great opportunity for children to make book-to-life connections about their family traditions. This book is also rich in kitchen and cooking vocabulary as it helps children hear and discuss words such as crank and strainer.
6. Apples, Apples Everywhere! Learning about Apple Harvests by Robin Koontz
Unique Feature: Informational Story Genre
Preschool Age Focus: 3.5+
This book is an informational story about a trip to an apple orchard. It includes many interesting facts about apples as well as an apple activity at the back of the book. While many younger preschoolers love this book, it is often a bigger hit with older preschoolers.
7. From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky
Unique Feature: Focuses on Apple Cider
Preschool Age Focus: 3+
A rhyming book that shares a realistic view of how cider is made. Chokfull of vocabulary words, this book allows preschool students to grow their background knowledge and learn how a tasty autumn drink is made.
8. The Biggest Apple Ever by Steven Kroll and Jeni Bassett
Unique Feature: Part of a Series
Preschool Age Focus: 2+
This book is part of a fun holiday series. I enjoy reading each book in the series to my kids during the appropriate holiday season as it provides opportunities for students to predict what will happen and make book-to-book connections.
9. How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
Unique Feature: Focuses on Food Sources and Geography
Preschool Age Focus: 3.5+
This book is a great discussion starter about where food comes from. After all, there is no such thing as an apple pie tree! For a geography extension, find the places mentioned in the book on a world map or globe. Or for a cooking extension, try the apple pie recipe printed in the back of this book! This is another book that would be best enjoyed by older preschoolers.
10. The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree by Gail Gibbons
Unique Feature: Focuses on the Seasonal Changes of Apple Trees
Preschool Age Focus: 2+
Gail Gibbons is one of my favorite nonfiction children’s authors. Although she has two apple-focused children’s books, I find this one is more friendly to preschoolers. It also gives a new focus on apple-learning as it focuses on the apple tree. It explores the changes of the apple tree throughout the seasons.
11. Apples for Everyone by Jill Esbaum
Unique Feature: Preschool Friendly Nonfiction Book with National Geographic Photographs
Preschool Age Focus: 3+
The beautiful photographs and interesting apple facts make this book an engaging read for preschool students.
12. How Do Apples Grow? by Jill McDonald
Unique Feature: Board Book
Preschool Age Focus: 1+
An apple-themed nonfiction book for all ages! This board book provides simple and interesting facts and even includes a diagram! If you like this book, it’s part of a 56-book series called, Hello, World!
Wouldn’t it be delightful to have some apple activities to along with these apple books for preschoolers all ready to go for your child(ren)?! Check out my *free* apple-themed activity guide and start the apple-learning fun! It includes activities to enhance learning, play ideas to help children construct their own learning, book lists with questions and discussion topics, material lists, and more!