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Golden Delicious: A Cinderella Apple Story, by Anna Egan Smucker, is a wonderful kid's book read aloud for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school ages (and adults still young at heart), about the history of the Golden Delicious apple for the Autumn / Fall season.  Parents and teachers, join me here at The Children's Storytime Bookshelf for daily read alouds in the classroom, at bedtime, or anytime!  Follow The Children's Storytime Bookshelf for a classic children's library.  #kidsbooksreadaloud #readaloud #readaloudbooksforchildren

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00:00Golden

00:27Delicious A Cinderella Apple Story by Anna Egan Smucker, illustrated by Kathleen Kemley.

00:37It was apple season in the fall of 1905, and the Stark Brothers Nursery in Louisiana, Missouri

00:44was flooded with apples.

00:46They were sent by farmers who hoped they had grown the world's best new apple, one the

00:52Stark Brothers would want to sell to all their customers.

00:59I feel like the prince who tried a glass slipper on one smelly foot after another to find Cinderella,

01:06Paul Stark said to his brother Lloyd.

01:09Paul had just tasted another disappointing apple that sure had looked like royalty.

01:18But all those disappointments didn't stop the Stark Brothers from dreaming about finding

01:23the perfect apple, one that could be crowned queen of the apple world and bring them fame

01:29and fortune.

01:32Meanwhile, miles and miles away in the hills of West Virginia, Anderson Mullins was inspecting

01:41his new farm.

01:42It had been a hot summer and everything was dry as dust.

01:46He hadn't reckoned on coming face to face with a miracle.

01:51There in the midst of his dried up apple orchard was a glorious green leaf tree, its branches

01:57loaded with shining golden apples.

02:00He snapped one off and took a bite.

02:03Never had he tasted an apple so sweet, so juicy, so delicious.

02:12For the next eight years, during wet seasons and dry seasons, Anderson Mullins' tree produced

02:19bushels and bushels of those golden apples.

02:23Every time he entered them in the Clay County Fair, they won blue ribbons.

02:28Each year, his tree produced fruit when other trees didn't.

02:32Come springtime, when the other apples that had been in his fruit cellar all winter were

02:37wrinkly and dried out, his golden apples were still fresh and sweet.

02:42He was sure they were like no other apples in the whole wide world.

02:49So in the spring of 1914, Anderson Mullins searched his fruit cellar for the three most

02:56perfect golden apples he could find and sent them to the Stark Brothers' nursery.

03:01He knew the Starks were always on the lookout for new and better kinds of fruit and he was

03:06hoping for some extra dollars in his pocket.

03:12By and by, the apples arrived.

03:15Mullins' yellow seedling samples, Paul Stark read, blowing sawdust off the card.

03:21Don't waste your time on them, his brother Lloyd muttered.

03:25Yellow apples don't sell.

03:26Tough skin, bland taste, they don't keep well.

03:30But Paul had just bitten into a slice.

03:33Lloyd, Lloyd, he yelled, and he shoved a piece in his brother's mouth.

03:38Taste, taste this.

03:44Mm, juicy, said Lloyd.

03:48Crisp and spicy, said Paul, even though it's at least six months old.

03:54This can't be a yellow apple, Lloyd exclaimed.

03:57It's not, said Paul, his smile bigger than a giant slice of watermelon.

04:02It's not a yellow apple, it's a golden apple.

04:07This just might be our Cinderella, shouted Lloyd.

04:14Paul Stark found it hard to wait till the next apple harvest season.

04:18When fall finally came, he traveled hundreds of miles to see that golden apple tree.

04:25First by train and then by horseback over winding mountain roads, he reached Odessa,

04:30West Virginia.

04:32The sun poured down hot as apple butter just out of the kettle.

04:36His white shirt stuck to him tighter than the skin on a grape, but he didn't care.

04:44At last, on a dusty country road along Porter's Creek near Odessa, Paul saw a mailbox that

04:50said A.H. Mullins.

04:53He knew his journey was almost at an end.

04:57No one answered when he knocked on the door, so he set out on his own to find Mullins'

05:01orchard and its extraordinary tree.

05:09Paul wasn't used to hills as steep as those in Clay County, West Virginia.

05:13Sweating and gasping for breath, he climbed and climbed.

05:18At first, he found only some scraggly old trees, but then he saw it.

05:23A tree with rich green leaves, its branches bent to the ground with the weight of a great

05:28crop of gorgeous glowing golden apples.

05:31Paul couldn't help himself.

05:33It was as if his hand reached out by itself and plucked one.

05:40He was biting into it when a farmer came striding down the hill toward him.

05:45"'My name's Paul Stark,' Paul told the farmer.

05:48"'That's some apple!'

05:49"'Name's Mullins,' the farmer said.

05:52"'I sent you some.'

05:53"'I know,' Paul said.

05:55"'And I'd like to buy that tree from you.'

05:58So the two men put their heads together and agreed on a price.

06:06Paul Stark hired workmen to build a cage to protect the tree from animals and thieves.

06:12He even ordered a wire strung from the locked cage to a battery-powered burglar alarm in

06:18Anderson Mullins' kitchen.

06:20When Paul Stark left Mullins' farm, he took a bundle of twigs from the golden apple tree

06:25with him.

06:27In early spring, those twigs were grafted onto some of the Stark brothers' apple trees,

06:32cut into the stems and wrapped tight so the two would grow together.

06:37Paul and Lloyd watched over them as if those grafted trees were hens getting ready to lay

06:42golden eggs.

06:47Those young trees grew quickly, and it wasn't long before beautiful golden apples filled

06:53their branches.

06:58And what did Paul and Lloyd Stark name their apples?

07:02That was easy!

07:03Golden Delicious!

07:05In 1919, Golden Delicious won a medal for the world's best new apple.

07:11You might say it was crowned queen, queen of the apple world!

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