SuitabookElsie's winter trip
Martha Finley
- Reading
- Try reading together a little at a time, pausing when the setting changes. Invite the reader to keep track of who is travelling and which places the family visits.
- Themes
- Family life and change: Two newlywed couples set up housekeeping together, and the wider family later travels with Grandma Elsie. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Travel and rescue: The family travels by ship to islands in the Caribbean and shores of South America; Ned falls and a sailor saves him. The journey includes an incident requiring help, but the details do not establish whether it is presented as frightening, comic or otherwise.
- Worth knowing
- Ned takes an unfortunate fall and is saved by a sailor. The extent of his injury and how the incident is described are unclear.