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Hutchins, Pat

Ten Red Apples

(3) PS "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.

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