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32 pp.
| Greenwillow |
April, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-688-16797-7$$15.95
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LibraryISBN 0-688-16798-5$$15.89
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"Ten red apples hanging on the tree. / Yippee, fiddle-dee-fee!" One by one, the apples are eaten by nine farm animals and the farmer, depicted in the gouache folk-art-like paintings as flat, jointed, wooden figures. When the farmer's wife arrives to pick apples for a pie, she finds none ("Fie, fie, fiddle-dee-fee!"). The rhyming verse is lively, and the endpapers reinforce the counting lesson.