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Sugar on Snow

Sugar on Snow

Paperback

FamilyGeneral Juvenile Fiction

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ISBN10: 1567923704
ISBN13: 9781567923704
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: Mar 17 2015
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 7.80 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
Sometime in early March, the cry of Sap's Rising can be heard in rural New England. In this lovely picture book, a father, his two sons, and one dog rise (very early) to the occasion and set off at dawn to the sugar bush to begin the process. Rossiter paints the action so that it is both personal and factual; we see the entire family involved Mom preparing the meals, Dad steering the big John Deere tractor through the fields, and the two sons, Seth and Ethan, learning how to steer, collecting the buckets, and replacing them on the spouts and, of course, the loyal hound, Chloe, trotting along for the ride. Everyone participates in the hard work hauling the buckets full of sap to the holding tank and also in the fun work reducing forty gallons of sap to one gallon of syrup in a big evaporator in the steamy sugarhouse. And, of course, testing and tasting the syrup. Continually.

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