The Sugar Bush

As his grandpa shows him the traditional way of making maple syrup, a boy finds his bond with nature strengthened.

What could be better than a trip to the sugar bush on a fresh springtime day! Young children will learn about collecting sap and making delicious maple syrup, perfect for the breakfast table. This book includes colourful photographs and simple text for the younger reader, and is a wonderful addition or supplement to a favourite elementary school field trip.

Learn about how maple syrup is made! A bright, colourful and easy-to-read book about the making of maple syrup. With simple comparisons to everyday objects, the text makes it easy for children to understand the process. Among the questions answered are: how is the sap collected from the tree? How much maple sap does it take to make a bottle of syrup? Who first made maple syrup? Learning about a savoury, traditional Canadian delicacy is fun -- and will only make eating this sweet treat even more fun! Pancakes, anyone?

In the month of the Maple Sugar Moon, the snow's too wet for angel making, icicles rain from Grandpa's porch roof, and something is stirring in the woods. It's sugarbush spring--time to tap the trees, prepare the bottles, then gather round the cook fire to eat chicken and dumplings, roast marshmallows, and tell stories while the cold sap heats through, thickens, and boils to make syrup. Chall's timeless story and Daly's glowing paintings invite children to share in the pleasure of making maple syrup--a process that's the same today as it was two hundred years ago.In the month of the Maple Sugar Moon, icicles rain from Grandpa's porch roof and something is stirring in the woods. It's sugarbush spring-time to tap the trees, then gather round the cook fire to roast marshmallows and tell stories while the cold sap thickens and boils to make maple syrup.In the month of the Maple Sugar Moon, icicles rain from Grandpa's porch roof and something is stirring in the woods. It's sugarbush spring-time to tap the trees, then gather round the cook fire to roast marshmallows and tell stories while the cold sap thickens and boils to make maple syrup.

Now starring in her very own book: the International Superstar squirrel--Sugar Bush! Peppered with fun lessons and activities, this supremely adorable volume follows Sugar Bush from the Big Easy to ancient Egypt and back again. Featuring an impressive array of sets and the most extensive wardrobe a squirrel has ever donned, Sugar Bush Chronicles will delight this Internet sensation's legions of fans and animal lovers everywhere.

"This book tells the history of how, from 1896 to 1908, Abbot Augustus Low and his Horse Shoe Forestry Company carved an industrial landscape out of the Adirondack forests of northern New York state, complete with railroads, electrification, mills, dams, a private camp, and the centerpiece maple syrup operation. Exploiting a sugarbush of 50,000 taps using a network of pipelines to carry sap from the woods to collection points and boiling sap on nearly twenty colossal evaporators in a series of syrup plants, the Horse Shoe Forestry Company's maple syrup operation was a novel attempt at making maple syrup in the Adirondack wilderness on a scale never before experienced. In time the landscape of A.A. Low's private estate changed hands and uses, but as this book shares, the archaeological remains of the story of the Horse Shoe Forestry Company can still be found on the land"--