By Michele Benoit Slawson, Illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray (Dragonfly Books ~ 1994)

When it’s apple picking time, everyone has to help. The whole town knows they have only three weeks to get the fruit off the trees before it spoils. A young girl and her family spend a fall day picking apples with others from their small town. This is to celebrate family and community.

リンゴの収穫時は、誰もが助け合う。町の人は誰でも、3週間以内でリンゴが木から落ちてしまうのを知っているから、その前に収穫を終えなくてはならない。少女は秋の一日を、家族や小さな町の人々と共にリンゴの収穫に励んだ。家族とコミュニテイーへの祝福が伝わってくる。