Sugaring Time

72 Pages·1983·4.318 MB·English

by  Kathryn Lasky

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V England, there is a time between
ind spring when the combination of
nights and warm days starts sap
in the maple trees. This is sugarmg
nen families like the Laceys of cen-
mont engage in that still-flourishing
can tradition—the gathering of
sap for boiling into delectable
syrup.
ring is hard work. Kathryn Lasky
hristopher G. Knight, award-
g author and photographer of Tlw
s Gift, follow the Laceys as they use
agnificent Belgian horses to break a
boriously through the snow to the
tree stand. With help from theirchil-
nd a small neighbor, Alice and Don
drill 200 holes, position 200 spouts,
mg 200 buckets and "hats." Over
lays sapdrips into the buckets and is
by sled to the sugarhouse, where
;enerations of Vermonters work to-
exchangewisdom, and swapstories
nded by the "muffled roar of the fire
e bubbling tumble of sap."
stopher G. Knight's brilliant photo-
and Kathryn Lasky's evocative text
art readers to the bleak grandeur of
rmont countryside, to the cold and
h, to the sights and sounds and
/ smellsof thatglorious time—sugar-
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SUGARING
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SUGARING
TIME
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By KATHRYN LASKY
Photographs by
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT
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MACMILLAN PUBLISHING CO., INC. NEW YORK
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Copyright © 1983 Kathryn Lasky
Copyright C' 1983 Christopher G. Knight
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Designed by Leslie Bauman
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Library of Congress Cataloging
in Publication Data
Lasky, Kathryn.
Sugaring time.
Summary: Text and photographs show how a
family taps the sap from maple trees and
processes it into maple syrup.
1. Maple sugar—Juvenile literature. 2. Maple
syrup—Juvenile literature. [1. Maple sugar.
2. Maple syrup] 1. Knight, Christopher C, ill.
II. Title.
SB239.M3L37 1983 633.6'45 82-23928
ISBN 0-02-751680-6
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For Meredith, cares
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