Sunday, April 8, 2012

Picture Book #25 The Red Book


TITLE: The Red Book
AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR: This book was written and illustrated by Barbara Lehman.
GENRE: Picture Book
THEME: The adventures found in a book
AWARDS: Caldecott Honor Book
CHARACTERS: Children who encounter the book

PUBLISHING DATE AND COMPANY: Houghton Mifflin Book for Children, 2004.
SUMMARY: This is an amazing wordless picture book that will take all readers on quite a journey!  A little girl who lives in the city discovers a red book covered by the snow.  In this book she finds a map of an island and sees pictures of a little boy reading the same book; however, in his red book the story shows the city-girl.  I see this book as a play on words.  When I see the word "red", I think of the homophone "read".  I think this story would be great  to demonstrate to children how "red"/"red" books can lead everyone to a different place/perspective; however, they will all enjoy it at the same rate.

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