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Who's Got the Apple?: 08/14/24

Who's Got the Apple?

Who's Got the Apple? by Jan Lööf, Ole Risom and Linda Hayward (Translators) (1974) was originally published in Swedish as Sagan om det röda äpplet, or the tale of the red apple. The English version is vaguer about which apple as there are two: the red one, and a green one.

The entire book is set during the events of April Fools' Day. The man on the cover wants to buy a juicy red apple to eat. Unfortunately the green grocer only has the one he's growing for himself and decides to play a trick on the customer. He gives the man a wax green apple and tells him to set it out so it can ripen.

The man goes home and does just that, leaving the fake apple on a window sill overlooking the town. And then a series of events spiral out of control resulting in the fake apple being knocked off the sill and landing in the garden. Meanwhile the real apple is taken after a traffic accident knocks a hole in the green grocers wall.

Although there is a linear set of events just relating to the apple, there is an entire side plot involving a thief. Observant readers will see how the two plots will come together and result in the switching of the fake apple for the real apple as well as the man's cat being blamed for a bite being taken out of the now "ripe" apple.

Five stars

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