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The Red Book

Author: Barbara Lehman

Title: The Red Book

Illustrator: Barbara Lehman

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

Year: 2004

Format: Hardcover

Genre: Picture Book (no text)

Reading Level: Emergent

Interest-Level: Elementary

Topics: Winter, School, Imagination

Summary: As a girl is walking to school one day, she comes across a red book sitting in the snow. She picks up the book and once she arrives at school she begins to read it, but it has no words! On the other end, there is a boy somewhere warm and he can see where the girl is. The girl wants to go where the boy is so buys a bunch of balloons and floats off to find him.

Extension Activities:

-Discuss the importance of books with no words – how your imagination can run wild and you can tell the story however you want.

-Have the students create their own story without words and tell it to the class.