SuitabookApples to Oregon
Deborah Hopkinson
- Reading
- Before reading, notice the different plants and imagine which travel problem might be hardest. Afterwards, discuss how the family responds to change and what the journey asks them to protect.
- Themes
- Moving and belonging: Papa relocates the family from Iowa to Oregon, taking treasured fruit trees as well. The journey presents relocation as a central family situation, but the book’s judgement about the move or its effects is unclear.
- Care and responsibility: Delicious helps her father try to get the fruit trees through difficult travelling conditions. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Some readers may want to talk about leaving home, facing severe weather and trying to protect living things.