INTERACTIVE READ ALOUD
Read Aloud Questions
1. On the first page, the boy sees the apple for the first time.
→ What do you notice about this apple?
→ Does it remind you of anything else?
2. The boy starts imagining different things right away.
→ What do you think it could be other than an apple?
→ Show me with your hands what you imagine it turning into!
3. The boy wonders if the apple might be a red fish.
→ What other animal do you think it could be?
4. Check out all of the apple’s cool hats and hairstyles.
→ Which one is your favorite?
→ Do some of the hats/hairstyles give you a clue of what that apple might be?
5. The boy wonders if the apple might wish it were something else.
→ Do you think this apple wants to be something other than an apple?
→ What do you think it might wish to be?
→ If you were this apple, would you want to stay an apple or be something else?
→ What would you choose to be?
6. Check out the two page spread of the apple having feelings.
→ Show me with your face what feeling you’re having right now.
→ What do you think the apple would look like if it was feeling hungry? Or silly? Or surprised?
→ How do you think the apple feels as it goes on all these adventures in the boy’s imagination?
7. Do you think this apple has family or friends?
→ What would they look like?
→ Can you think of some fun names to give them?
→ Which of the friends and family that the boy imagines would you want to get to know first? Why?
8. The boy imagines the apple has seen many places and gone on many adventures before ending up on his table.
→ What kind of place do you think this apple could have come from? A different country, or maybe another planet?
→ If this apple could travel anywhere in the world, where do you think it would go?
→ Where would you want to take this apple on an adventure? What would you do together?
9. Near the end, the boy comes back to thinking it might just be an apple.
→ Do you think it’s really just an apple after all? Or could it still be something else?
10. If you were the boy, would you have eaten the apple?
11. What was your favorite thing the apple turned into in this story?
12. This book reminds us that you can use your imagination to turn one thing into something entirely different!
→ For example, take a look at a small desk lamp. It might be a dinosaur with a long neck eating leaves from a tall tree, or, it might be a flower that needs to be watered so it can grow!
13. After reading this book, find and spend some time with an object that you don’t usually play with. Something that isn’t a toy. You can look at it with your eyes and use your imagination to wonder what else it could be.
→ Might it be something different than what your eyes see right away?
→ Can you tell some little stories, like the child in the book, about what it might be and what could happen?
