Preschool Apple Books

These preschool apple books are ripe for the pickin’ and your little ones are sure to love each one. Fill your autumn book basket with books from this list. They’re perfect for all of your preschool apple themed activities!

Our local apple orchard just announced that it’s open for picking. I’m so excited! I want to visit with my daughter and pick some apples. We’ve never been picking before.

I want to pick enough to make some applesauce, some cinnamon apples, and some apple butter. I’d love to experiment with some gluten-free apple cobbler and apple muffin recipes, as well. (If you have one to share, I’d love it!)

These preschool apple books are ripe for the pickin' and your little ones are sure to love each one. Fill your autumn book basket with books from this list.

Preschool Apple Books

If you’re excited that it’s apple season, too, you’ll want to pick some of these fun apple books for preschoolers. You should be able to find these at your local library, used books store, or online at Amazon.

Ten Apples Up On Top!Apples, Apples Everywhere!: Learning About Apple Harvests (Autumn)Apples for Everyone (Picture the Seasons)

Ten Apples Up On Top! – When a lion, a dog, and a tiger meet up, they soon discover that they can each do different things while balancing apples on their heads. Whether drinking milk, jumping rope, or roller-skating, they can do a lot with ten apples up on top! But watch out, she has a mop! She’ll knock those apples from up on top.

Apples, Apples Everywhere! – Autumn is apple harvest time. Come along on a trip to the apple orchard. Find out how apples are picked and stored. Learn which apples are best for munching. But watch out for the apple worms!

Apples for Everyone – Apples! The very word conjures up images of fall: ripe red apples falling off the tree as the leaves begin their glorious extravaganza of color change; baskets of gathered fruits at the foot of laddered orchards; the rich aroma of an apple-pie cooling.

Applesauce SeasonAnnie the Apple Pie FairyCurious George Apple Harvest

Applesauce 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, it’s time to take out the big pot and make applesauce. 

Annie the Apple Pie Fairy – Annie the Apple Pie Fairy is a TV chef who makes simple, homey pies. One day, her position as the queen of pies is threatened by Sondra the Strudel fairy’s new show. An intense competition starts between Annie and Sondra, and sees their fairy audience become obsessed with Sondra’s fancy pies and the gadgets used to make them. But when the mass of new gadgets and pie-making machines causes a huge power outage, what will happen to all the pies, and will Annie be able to save the day?

Curious George: Apple Harvest – While helping the Renkinses harvest their apples, George discovers a giant cider press inside the barn! As usual, George’s curiosity gets the best of him, and he accidentally starts the machine. Suddenly all of the apples they’ve collected are being washed, chopped, and squished into liquid! Will George be able to collect the cider and stop the machine, or will he find himself in an even stickier situation?

Pinkalicious: Apples, Apples, Apples!Apple Picking Day! (Step into Reading)Max & Mo Go Apple Picking

Pinkalicious: Apples, Apples, Apples! – Pinkalicious and the Pinkertons are all excited when they return from their trip to the orchard with lots of Pink Lady apples to munch on! After realizing they have more apples than the family could possibly use, Pinkalicious finds ways to share the apples with others.

Apple Picking Day! – Who doesn’t love to go apple picking at the first sign of fall? A sister and brother celebrate autumn with a trip to a local apple orchard in this simple, rhyming Step 1 early reader.

Max & Mo Go Apple Picking – Max and Mo are tired of eating corn. Luckily the big ones — the kids — just went apple picking. Everyone knows you can make applesauce with apples, but is there anything else you can make with them?

Apples, Apples, ApplesJohnny Appleseed (Ready-to-Reads)How Do Apples Grow?

Apples, Apples, Apples  – It’s a blue sky autumn day and Minna, Pop, Mom, and Dad have decided to go on an outing to Long Hill Orchard. As the bunnies fill their baskets, Farmer Miller teaches them all about apples. This charming story is filled with fun facts, activities, and an applesauce recipe.

Johnny Appleseed – Who’s that walking along the Ohio? It’s Johnny Appleseed! He walks across the land, planting trees wherever he goes. So, everyone, clap your hands for Johnny Appleseed!

How Do Apples Grow? – Have you ever eaten part of a flower? You have if you have eaten an apple! Find out how an apple grows from bud to flower to fruit–ready for you to pick!

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Dragonfly Books)ApplesApple Farmer Annie

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World – An apple pie is easy to make…if the market is open. But if the market is closed, the world becomes your grocery store. This deliciously silly recipe for apple pie takes readers around the globe to gather ingredients. First hop a steamboat to Italy for the finest semolina wheat. Then hitch a ride to England and hijack a cow for the freshest possible milk. And, oh yes! Don’t forget to go apple picking in Vermont! A simple recipe for apple pie is included.

Apples – All about apples, from pollination to picking and eating.

Apple Farmer Annie – Apple cider, applesauce, apple muffins, cakes, and pies! Annie is a very busy apple farmer. She bakes yummy treats with the apples she picks and saves her best apples to sell at the market. Follow Annie through her apple-filled day of picking, counting, sorting, baking, and selling, and then try making some of her simple apple recipes.

An Apple Pie for DinnerThe Apple Pie TreeThe Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree

An Apple Pie for Dinner – Granny Smith wants to bake an apple pie, but she doesn’t have any apples. So off she goes with a basketful of plums in hopes that she can make a trade. Granny swaps plums for feathers, feathers for flowers, flowers for a gold coin, a gold coin for a puppy, and a puppy for what she hoped to find in the first place—apples! Then she bakes a delicious apple pie for everyone she has met along the way.

The Apple Pie Tree – We have a special tree in our yard–an apple pie tree! Colorful collage illustrations follow each season as an apple tree grows leaves, fragrant blossoms, and tiny green apples. Soon the fruit is big, red, and ready to be picked. It’s time to make an apple pie! 

The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree – Arnold collects apple blossoms in spring, builds a tree house in summer, makes apple pie and cider in the fall, and hangs strings of popcorn and berries for the birds in winter, among other seasonal activities. Includes a recipe for apple pie and a description of how an apple cider press works.

Which of these apple books for preschool will you read first?

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