If every mom goes into the library after reading an autumn book list, and every mom checks out “Fletcher and the Falling Leaf”, then every mom will leave empty handed because we cannot all read all the books at the same seasonal time! Gah!
Fall Favorites, in its time
I know the feeling all to well of jazzing myself up to bring home a large seasonal book haul filled with the most well known titles and losing the buzz placing books on reserve available in December. At the same time, there will be no apples in August in this house! We are southerners. We might could celebrate fall on the first day of October with mid-70’s and an orange colored t-shirt. But we have walked the infamous “fall scavenger hunt” on the equinox each year with sweat dripping into our eyes looking for a colored leaf or two.
Do I sound bitter? Maybe slightly. We just can’t jump the gun around here! But when our time comes to welcome in the season, we need enough delicious autumn books to go around. Brilliant thing is, there are plenty! We will make it special when it’s right – some of our favorite traditions include:
- A full apple day: peeling, coring, chopping apples, making apple sauce, apple cider and apple donuts!
- The first slice of pumpkin pie – my mom’s heirloom recipe (coming soon!)
- Making homemade brown sugar coffee syrup and creamer, and sipping morning cups on the front porch
- Collecting sweetgum tree leaves in the park – a mixture of green, yellow, orange and red
- Growing pumpkins
- Photos at the pumpkin patch with Mimi
- The Great Pumpkin from Snoopy sound track playing
- Pulling out the record player
- The first fire in the fireplace
- Setting up the fire pit in the backyard for s’mores!
Unique & Lovely Fall Books
Listed below are 23 lesser known fall books to read with your first pumpkin spice drink and apple fritter in hand:
- “Mr. Putter Picks the Pears” by Arthur Howard
- “The Apple Pie Tree” by Zoe Hall
- “How Do Apples Grow?” by Jill McDonald
4. “The Oxcart Man” by Donald Hall
5. “Autumn is Here by Billy Steers
6. “Rocket and the Perfect Pumpkin” by Tad Hills
7. “The Apple Cake” by Nienke van Hichtum
8. “Berenstain Bears Harvest Festival” by Mike Berenstain
9.“Disney’s Out and About: A Wonderful Wind” by Ann Braybrooks
10. “Corn” by Gail Gibbons
11. “Apple Picking Time” by Michele Benoit Slawson
12. “Apples” by Gail Gibbons
13. “Porcupine’s Pie” by Laura Renauld
14. “I know It’s Autumn” by Eileen Spinelli
15. “Too Many Pumpkins” by Linda White
16. “The Hundred Year Barn” by Patricia MacLachlan
17. “The Autumn Visitors” by Karel Hayes
18. “Apples, Apples Everywhere” by Robin Koontz
19. “Sophie Mouse and the Maple Festival” by Poppy Green
20. “Johnny Appleseed” by Reeve Lindbergh
21. “Apple Picking Day” by Candice Ransom
22. “Laura’s Pa” by Laura Ingalls Wilder
23. “The Pumpkin Runner” by Marsha Diane Arnold
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