A is for Applesauce is the first in the Arthur & Zita Alphabet Book series. Nine year old Zita loves WORDS and her favourite book is the DICTIONARY Today is "A WORDS DAY." While she and her younger brother Arthur await the arrival of awesome Aunt Alice, Zita searches for all the words she can that begin with the letter A. A is for Applesauce tells of a trip to the Animal Zoo cut short, and other commotions, accompanied by A Words such as applesauce, ants, attempted arrest, angel food cake, awards, arguing, and antics. As a "day in the life" family adventure with expressive and colourful...

A is for Applesauce Word Play is a colourful accompanying activity book to A is for Applesauce, using Zita's Awesome A Words. A is for Applesauce Word Play is directed to the grade three to five level, to build creativity and imagination, vocabulary and word recognition and reading for meaning, through word games, crosswords, scrambles, drawing, script and cursive writing and more... A is for Applesauce may be enjoyed by children ages seven to twelve and parents, as a stand alone, read alone, or read-to book.

Mrs. Adamson lives on an Island in the sea with her husband and their four boys. Fishing is important on this Island, but Mrs. Adamson, being a newcomer to the Island doesn't know a lot about fishing, or about haddock or halibut. A gift of fresh halibut from Mrs. Adamson's neighbour, her husband's experience as a fisherman and her son's reading bring her to the wonders of halibut - a strange shape-changing fish and how it is quite different from haddock