Applesauce Season

A taste of fall: Celebrated editor Eden Lipson and Caldecott Medal winner Mordicai Gerstein celebrate a fall family ritual in Applesauce Season a picture book rich with the colors and flavors of the season. When the first apples of the season--Ida Red and Paula Red Twenty Ounce McIntosh and Ginger Gold--show up in the city markets its time to take out the big pot and make applesauce. A lovingly recounted description of a familys applesauce-making ritual describes the buying peeling cooking and stirring; the wait for the sauce to cool and the first taste. Mordicai Gersteins paintings are full of the colors and flavors of the season: red apples orange leaves blue skies. Heres a lovely picture book celebrating an American family tradition.