This wordless picturebook is a nature story that enfolds over several years.

A young boy sees a man eating an apple beside his apple cart and decides to have one himself. As well as apples, the cart is also home to a contented, sleepy cat.

After the boy has finished his apple, he throws the core over his shoulder, where it lands in grassy field.

Time passes, and on the following page we see a small green plant beginning to grow where the core has fallen.

A hare is now also eating an apple, and shortly after a crow is as well.

Later on a little girl eats an apple and a chicken pecks at the core.

Meanwhile the patch of green plants grows bigger and some of them are turning into young trees.

By the time a sheep comes to eat an apple – after various other animals have also been by and enjoyed one – the green patch has transformed a small orchard.

Behind the orchard a row of houses is expanding, too.

Some years on, the apple man is back with his loyal cat to pick this year’s crop of apples for the new townsfolk to enjoy. The story has come full circle.

May ‘Nonny’ Hogrogian (1932-2024) was an American writer, illustrator and designer who created over 70 books.

Born to Armenian parents in the Bronx, New York, she studied at the city’s Hunter College in the early 1950s and went on to win the Randolph Caldecott Medal for illustration two times: once in 1966 for Always Room for One More (written by Sorche Nic Leodhas) and in 1972 for One Fine Day (an old Armenian folk tale). She also received a Caldecott Honor in 1977 for The Contest, another Armenian folk tale.