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yangyvonne's review against another edition
3.0
You could literally start your own syrup business after reading this book! It is so crazily detailed about the process - might be better for older kids? (Was marketed to mine through scholastic books in their preschool)
mldavisreads's review
informative
slow-paced
4.0
Children's narrative nonfiction/ informative picture book. In my ongoing quest to read accurate ag books for children, this book about how maple syrup is made caught my eye. A young girl goes with her father to start tapping the maple trees. Throughout the day, friends and family arrive to help with the process. The trees are tapped, bottles sterilized, and then the sap is collected. The sap has to boil down extensively (back matter says that a bathtub's worth of sap boils down into one gallon of syrup!) and be measured for sugar content. Eventually it is ready, and the whole crew that has gathered works to quickly bottle it all up. This is a straightforward tale of making syrup, there is no side plot or anything to distract from the process. The illustrations feature a diverse community of people coming together. Very informative book that would be wonderful to pair with a pancake breakfast!
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