Observes the aptly named fall season, characterized by falling leaves, falling apples, falling players on the football field, and falling temperatures.

Mrs. Connor's first grade class decides to send colorful fall leaves to students in another state where the leaves do not change color.

Rhyming text and illustrations celebrate the pleasures of fall, from turning leaves and apple picking to pumpkins and Halloween.

Depicts in words and photographs the coming of autumn.

"A young girl visits an arboretum in the autumn to collect fallen leaves. She identifies various trees by the shapes of their leaves and pastes her collection into her own leaf book"--

Explains why the season of autumn happens and how it manifests itself in the weather and changes in plants and animals.

Each day, from September through November, brings glimpses of forest animals seeking food in preparation for the onset of winter, from a fox sniffing the last apple on the ground to a flock of wild turkeys that finds nothing.

"It's autumn in New England and Truly and her fellow Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes are gearing up for the annual Halloween Festival. Aunt True and her new husband, Rusty, have bought Ethel and Elmer Farnsworth's dilapidated old farm on the edge of town, where they're going to raise sheep. Truly and her grandparents have volunteered to farm- and sheep-sit while the newlyweds are on their honeymoon. But as always, the small town of Pumpkin Falls is soon...