Suitabook
To The Top!
Clea Mallinson
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Clea Mallinson. Illustrator: Julie Smith-Belton. Designer: Natalya Yoro. Editor: Carla Lever.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: To The Top! (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Take time over each spread: invite your child to point out creatures and details, then let them decide what the characters might be thinking.
- Themes
- Helping one another: The adult and child climb together, with gestures of encouragement and moments when each is ahead of the other. Their supportive gestures present companionship as part of the journey, though the story leaves much to readers’ interpretation.
- Noticing nature: The journey includes birds, bees, frogs and other small animals among flowers and mountain scenery. The pictures invite close looking, but do not establish a broader message about conservation or how to care for nature.
- Worth knowing
- The girl is briefly on her own after her hat blows away, while the adult is shown farther up the slope. The pictures later bring them back together.