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The Red Book

Author: Barbara Lehman
Title: The Red Book
Illustrator: Barbara Lehman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Year: 2004
Genre: No text picture book
Format: e-book

Reading Level: Emergent
Interest level: Pre-K
Topics: walking, red book, travel, friend, snow, adventure

Summary: A little girl find a red book in the snow on the way to school. While in class she opens it up to see a little boy in the picture staring back at her. She decides to grab some balloons and travels to where he is. On her way, she drops the red book. She in united with the boy in the picture and someone else comes along and picks up the red book where she dropped it.

Extension Activity: Talk about where they would fly to if they had a bunch of balloons to go on an adventure with. Have them come up with the next part of the story where the other boy picks up the book at the end.