The Red Book

Lehman, B. (2004). The Red Book. Illus. Barbara Lehman. New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Annotation: This is a wordless picture book that takes a young girl on a journey and she spots it sticking out of the snow and picks it up and sees tropical paradise and then an island and then this dot on an island becomes a boy. She flies to the boys island after school with some balloons and drops the book in the air and the cycle continues...

Genre: Wordless picture book

Grade Level: K-2nd

Readers who would like this: This would be a great book for a teacher to keep in her classroom and would pair well with a reading strategy because the students are having to work on inferrencing.

Rating/Response: I give this book a 2. Although the iluustrations were neat, I am not the type to like wordless picture books.

Question: Has there been a time when you couldn't find words to what you wanted to say?

Reading Strategy:
a) Tompkins, #25 (literacy center)
b) I think the collaborative book literacy center would be a good pair with this book. The studenst write pages that are added to a class book. They contribute by following the set guidelines before they write their page to add to the class book.
c) I think this would be great, because the teacher could have a copy of each of the wordless pages in this book and have each student interpret what the wordless picture means to them. They then will have a class book that turned the wordless book into a cute picture book.