Author: Barbara Lehman
Title: The Red Book
Illustrator: Barbara Lehman
Readability Score: K through 3rd
Genre:Picture Book
Theme: The adventures you can go on when you allow your imagination to take control.
Primary and Secondary Characters: A young girl, young boy, and a red book.
Award(s) date of publication: 2005 Caldecott Honor Book, published in 2004
Publishing Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN number: 0-618-42858-5
Summary and How this book could be used with students:
The Red Book is a wordless picture book that unites a young girl and boy together. On cold winter morning as the young girl is walking to school she discovers a red book lying in the snow. She picks it up and sticks in her backpack until she gets to school. After her arrival to school, she opens the book and it shows pictures of the continents, the next page then reveals a young boy looking at her from what looks like an island. In the boys book you can see him looking at her in school with the snow falling and her looking at him with the sun shinning. After school is done for the day the girl sticks the book in her bag for later. After school the girl pays a balloon man for a bouquet of balloons, the balloons then takes the girl airborne. Once the girl is airborne she looses the book and it falls back to the ground wide open. Since the book was left open the girl's new found free becomes cold from the snow fall. Later the girl arrives beach side with the her new friend as another person who is riding his bike picks up the book and looks back suspiciously.
This book could be used in many ways in the classroom. For younger children it could teach them how to "read" a book, how you have to read from left to write. For higher grade levels it could be used to introduce a writing activity, such as, students could give their own narration the story. This book could as be used to talk about sequencing and flow of a book.
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