Heights: In several places in the story, characters test height. Further, the redness of the apples represents the passion the characters have, either for piling them on top of their heads, or for getting back the ones that are rightfully theirs. Keeping apples on one’s heads becomes more important than anything. Every character who starts balancing them on their head is addicted at once, and cannot explain the sudden obsession they have with not letting them ever fall off. Also, holding 25 pounds on top of your head is totally fine for your health.Īpples: Like for Eve in Eden or Snow White in Fairytale Land, the apples are highly sought after and highly dangerous. The lesson for kids is it’s fine to steal things as long as you absolutely need them to prove you’re better than everyone else, or if you’re feeding an addiction. Presumably, then, they spend all their time keeping the apples up on top of their heads, and theoretically production plummets. They all quip in unison, as if in a musical, that they will not let them fall. The unlucky trio is then trapped between a hoard of bears and a wall (in the form of an apple cart).Īs with most children’s stories, however, the ending is happy and nonsensical: All characters upset the proverbial and literal cart and all of them, chasers and chased alike, along with the apple cart driver, end up with ten perfectly stacked apples on top of their heads. Their foes continue to chase them because, duh, they stole apples! Their chasers - all bears - become larger and angrier (and are briefly joined by birds, who don’t care that the apples were stolen they just want a snack). Now with a total of thirty apples atop their collective heads, our antiheroes then endure their most challenging athletic feat yet, as they are chased out of the house, and in fact the town, without letting any apples fall. Their once child-like exploits turn into an obsession, even an addiction, as they begin to steal apples from strangers’ kitchens, simply to continue their balancing acts. Yet the three animals - once antagonists - find common ground through the joy of apple balancing and the thrill of risking their lives by skating with them on top of their heads. What begins as a simple balancing challenge for an apple-loving, bipedal lion quickly devolves into an interspecies competition of whose neck is the strongest. Since I read Ten Apples Up on Top! ten times a day, here is a book review about it, because it makes me feel less dumb:
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