Candy Apple Blessings Illustrated by Maddie Frost

This fruit comes from the ground.
It's big and orange and round.
We're proud of all we've found!
Pick, Pick, Pick.
Let's explore the pumpkin patch!

There are lots of blessings: candy apples, new school year, hayrides, fallen leaves, etc. etc. This is a book to celebrate fall. As  you can see from the example I gave, the first three lines rhyme, then the next line is more of an exclamation, sound effect etc (Tap, Tap, Tap, Chug, Chug, Chug, etc) and the final line clarifies what the page is about.

The illustrator is Maddie Frost. Let's face it, I try really hard not to be critical of illustrators. If I was the illustrator, all the pictures would be stick figures and still unrecognizable, but I think Maddie does a nice job.  There's something sort of whimsical about the illustrations. It just seems like fall in the pictures. And it's easy to say that because the book is about fall, but maybe it's the colors, maybe it's the whimsy, maybe it's just cozy, but the illustrations are very nice. They are not real to life, which I like to specify, so you are not disappointed.

This would make a great little gift for the toddler/preschooler who is being left behind while the older siblings go back to school. It would make a great gift just to celebrate fall and to point all the fun things that you can do in the fall. It makes me want to rake a pile of leaves and jump in them (but really who am I kidding? That's a lot of work :) )

I received this book from Book Look Bloggers and was not required to write a positive review.