Crazy for Apples (Emma Every Day)

Crazy for Apples (Emma Every Day)

Fall is Emma's favorite season. She loves the weather, the leaves, and most of all, the apples! Every fall, Emma's dad takes Emma and her best friend, Izzie, to the apple orchard. And every year they pick dozens of apples so they can make apple pies, applesauce, apple tarts, and other apple treats. But this year, things don't go as planned at the orchard. Follow Emma and Izzie on their apple adventure in this early chapter book from the Emma Every Day series. An ASL fingerspelling chart, glossary, and content-related questions complete the book. Emma, who is white, has a Cochlear Implant (CI) and she signs. She's headed to the apple orchard in order to pick apples for cooking, but her basket of apples ends up in the mud.This short book is good for beginning and emerging readers, and the apple-picking theme is perfect for fall. Emma's best friend Izzie Jackson is Black and the Learn to Sign feature at the back of each story features diverse kids. Reid, the author of the fun "Emma Every Day" early reader series, is Deafblind with a CI and is ASL fluent as well. --Ann Clare LeZotte "School Library Journal, "Four Titles by Deaf, Hard of Hearing and..."" Deaf-blind since childhood, C.L. Reid received a cochlear implant (CI) as an adult to help her hear, and she uses American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate. She and her husband have three sons. Their middle son is also deaf-blind. C.L. earned a master's degree in writing for children and young adults at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She lives in Minnesota with her husband, two of their sons, and their cats. Elena Aiello is an illustrator and character designer. After graduating as a marketing specialist, she decided to study art direction and CGI. Doing so, she discovered a passion for illustration and conceptual art. She works as a freelancer for various magazines and publishers. Elena loves video games and sushi and lives with her husband and her little pug, Gordon, in Milan, Italy.