There never was a family quite like the Apple family.

First it was Mr. Apple's idea that, as long as his name was Apple, his children should have Apple names; so there was MacIntosh, Jonathan, Delicious, Snow and, finally, just Ann Apple.

Then it was Mrs. Apple's idea that their city apartment was too crowded for seven Apples. That was how they happened to move to a new home in an apple orchard. It took lots of work, indeed, inside and outs, for all the Apples to make it look like a real Apple home.

But it was the red and shiny apples in the orchard that solved the Apple family problem and made it possible for them to do the thing they wanted most.

From the dust jacket