From Maple Tree to Syrup

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table of Contents Workers plant trees The trees grow Workers drill holes Spouts are put in the holes Workers hang buckets The buckets are emptied The barrels are taken away The sap is heated The maple syrup is poured Time to eat Glossary Index 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 24 Copyright 2013 by Lerner Publishing Group Inc All rights reserved International copyright secured No part of this book may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group Inc except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review Lerner Publications Company A division of Lerner Publishing Group Inc 241 First Avenue North Minneapolis MN 55401 U S A Website address www lernerbooks com This book depicts the traditional process for collecting maple sap This process is still used in many sugar bushes However modern sugar bushes also often use plastic tubing to collect sap Photo Acknowledgments The images in this book are used with the permission of Danita Delimont Gallo Images Getty Images p 1 Ryan McGinnis Alamy p 3 Cornell Maple Program p 5 Marilyn Angel Wynn Nativestock Getty Images p 7 NaturePL SuperStock p 9 Joseph Mercier Dreamstime com p 11 SuperStock p 13 Joe Raedle Getty Images p 15 Major Pix Alamy p 17 Aaron Flaum Alamy p 19 Vicki Beaver Alamy p 21 Flirt SuperStock p 23 Front cover Gene Lee Dreamstime com Main body text set in Arta Std Book 20 26 Typeface provided by International Typeface Corp Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data p cm Start to finish Second series Food From maple tree to syrup by Melanie Mitchell Includes index ISBN 978 0 7613 9181 4 lib bdg alk paper 1 Maple syrup Juvenile literature I Title Mitchell Melanie Melanie S TP395 M57 2013 664 132 dc23 2011036509 Manufactured in the United States of America 1 DP 7 15 12 eISBN 978-1-4677-0109-9