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.
