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The Red Book
This book is about a book. A magical red book without any words. When you turn the pages you’ll experience a new kind of adventure through the power of story.Winning a Caldecott Honor for itsillustrations of rare detail and surprise, The Red Book crosses oceans and continents to deliver one girl into a new world of possibility, where a friend she’s never met is waiting. An...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
September 27th 2004
by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
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I love the striking cover of this wordless picture book, a small child running through a bright red negative space (although the placement of the medal makes him appear to be fleeing from the moon). Maybe this image set the bar too high, as I found the book itself disappointing. The idea is fascinating if not totally original: finding a book in which one sees someone else reading the same book and looking back. However, I felt as if Lehman had this idea and then dashed something off without givi...more
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The Red Book by Barbara Lehman
Genre: Wordless Picture Book
Summary: This wordless picture book depicts a story of a girl who finds the book in the snow. As she looks through the book, she is thrown in different maps and scenes, finding a friend within the adventures.
Critique:
A) Plot: Illustrations
B) The way the pictures are cropped and framed in the story allow the reader (or viewer!) to focus in on the illustrations, and create a plot that is able to be pin pointed.
C) For example, in the begin...more
Genre: Wordless Picture Book
Summary: This wordless picture book depicts a story of a girl who finds the book in the snow. As she looks through the book, she is thrown in different maps and scenes, finding a friend within the adventures.
Critique:
A) Plot: Illustrations
B) The way the pictures are cropped and framed in the story allow the reader (or viewer!) to focus in on the illustrations, and create a plot that is able to be pin pointed.
C) For example, in the begin...more
This book received the Caldecott Honor and was also a starred review from School Library Journal. Watercolor, ink and gauche illustrations are found throughout the book. The stage is set on the title page which shows a city from a distance, while the next double page spread shows the city buildings more closely. The first page of the story shows a child walking along one of the city streets. What adventures await this child? The child finds a red book and excitedly waits throughout the school da...more
The Red Book
Category: Wordless picture book
Summary: In this delightful story, the reader is taken on a journey through pictures in a magical book. Traveling to beaches, across oceans and continents. This magical book takes you on an adventure of a book within a book.
Critique:
a. The area for critique is the illustrations and use of framing.
b. On many of the pages, the scenes are framed, sometimes by one and sometimes by many boxes. It is through these boxes that the reader feels as if they are t...more
Category: Wordless picture book
Summary: In this delightful story, the reader is taken on a journey through pictures in a magical book. Traveling to beaches, across oceans and continents. This magical book takes you on an adventure of a book within a book.
Critique:
a. The area for critique is the illustrations and use of framing.
b. On many of the pages, the scenes are framed, sometimes by one and sometimes by many boxes. It is through these boxes that the reader feels as if they are t...more
1. This is a wordless picture book.
2. This is about a little girl who finds a red book and when she opens it she sees someone else has a red book and they can see each other. They become friends through this book.
3. (A) I think this is a very accurate wordless book. I think this book has very vivid pictures that if students were reading by themselves they could create their own story and what is happening on their own. This book really allows for children to use their imagination.
(B) I think th...more
1. This book belongs to the wordless picturebook genre.
2. Two young people living in cities very far from each other each find a book, a magical red book. This book acts as a window and allows them to see each other, though they are far away. The girl from the cold city grabs a handful of balloons and begins to float away, but she drops her magical red book onto the sidewalk far below! She eventually reaches her destination by balloons to the other red book, but the journey is not over as a you...more
2. Two young people living in cities very far from each other each find a book, a magical red book. This book acts as a window and allows them to see each other, though they are far away. The girl from the cold city grabs a handful of balloons and begins to float away, but she drops her magical red book onto the sidewalk far below! She eventually reaches her destination by balloons to the other red book, but the journey is not over as a you...more
Citation: The Red Book, by Barbara Lehman. (Houghton Mifflin, 2004). 32p. Wordless Picture Book.
Summary: This story connects the very different lives of two children through a book. At the beginning, the girl finds a book in the snow. She is subsequently transported through maps, images, and balloons to a new friend discovered in the book’s pages.
Critique: (a.) The plot of this wordless book is beautifully told through vivid illustrations. Various sized frames progress through events, not only s...more
Summary: This story connects the very different lives of two children through a book. At the beginning, the girl finds a book in the snow. She is subsequently transported through maps, images, and balloons to a new friend discovered in the book’s pages.
Critique: (a.) The plot of this wordless book is beautifully told through vivid illustrations. Various sized frames progress through events, not only s...more
Genre: Picture book, Wordless
Summary: A little boy finds a red book with pictures of another little boy on an island. Somehow, the little boy is able to get balloons to fly him to the island where he is reunited with his friend.
A: The title was confusing for me as an adult, so for children I know they would have many questions as to the basic understanding of the book. Being that it was a wordless book I feel that its intentions should have been made more clearly for the reader.
B: I believe that...more
Summary: A little boy finds a red book with pictures of another little boy on an island. Somehow, the little boy is able to get balloons to fly him to the island where he is reunited with his friend.
A: The title was confusing for me as an adult, so for children I know they would have many questions as to the basic understanding of the book. Being that it was a wordless book I feel that its intentions should have been made more clearly for the reader.
B: I believe that...more
In this superb wordless picture book, the experiences of both the girl and boy allow them to encounter feelings of travel at exactly the same time. The book reflects the idea that people around the world share, feel, and engage in the same types of adventure and wonder. In this way The Red Book merges realism with fantasy by bringing together a phenomenon where a book serves as a type of seeing-glass vehicle into another world. The book has a magical element of finding, questing, and imagining....more
The Red Book by Barbara Lehman is a wordless fantasy book about a red book found by a girl who discovers through the book a faraway land with a new friend that she is transported to meet.
After finding a red book in a snowdrift, a girl looks though it at school, discovering a picture of a boy on a faraway island who is looking at her city and her through the window of her clasroom. The girl heads off, buys all the ballons from a street vendor, and floats skyward, dropping the red book. Through t...more
After finding a red book in a snowdrift, a girl looks though it at school, discovering a picture of a boy on a faraway island who is looking at her city and her through the window of her clasroom. The girl heads off, buys all the ballons from a street vendor, and floats skyward, dropping the red book. Through t...more
1. The genre: Wordless
2. Summary of the content: The Red Book is a wordless book about a little girl who gets lost in the book.
a. The Red Book is a great wordless book and the theme is something we all can relate to , a book so good that you just want to get lost in the story.
b. The Red Book was a little boring for me . I did not quite understand the flow of the pictures in the book . I loved the illustrations in the and the theme of the book on how little girl gets lost in the world of the b...more
1. Picture Books-Wordless
2. Two young boys in different parts of the world both discover a red book. When they begin to explore the book, they realize they are looking at each other. The city boy ties balloons to himself to fly away to meet his book buddy who lives on an island. They both lose their red books, and the adventure will begin again for two others.
3a. The plot of the story.
3b. In the beginning, I enjoyed the book ,until about halfway through it. The plot was becoming lost and I becam...more
2. Two young boys in different parts of the world both discover a red book. When they begin to explore the book, they realize they are looking at each other. The city boy ties balloons to himself to fly away to meet his book buddy who lives on an island. They both lose their red books, and the adventure will begin again for two others.
3a. The plot of the story.
3b. In the beginning, I enjoyed the book ,until about halfway through it. The plot was becoming lost and I becam...more
Published in 2004 by Houghton Mifflin.
Interest Level: K-4th Grade
This is a wordless picture book that has defined illustrations where a young girl finds a red book. After her discovery of this red book she finds that there is something different about this book and eventually becomes part of the book. The various perspectives that are included in this picture book as well as the well-defined illustrations and characters provide a simplistic feeling while exploring a more complex world. In additi...more
Interest Level: K-4th Grade
This is a wordless picture book that has defined illustrations where a young girl finds a red book. After her discovery of this red book she finds that there is something different about this book and eventually becomes part of the book. The various perspectives that are included in this picture book as well as the well-defined illustrations and characters provide a simplistic feeling while exploring a more complex world. In additi...more
May 26, 2009
Shanna Gonzalez
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This is a simply yet eloquently drawn wordless book delivering a charming fantasy, undoubtedly influenced by David Wiesner but with a quite different artistic style. A girl is walking to school when she spies in the snow a red-covered book, which she recovers and carries in her book bag. During class she opens it and discovers that it is a portal to another book, just discovered by a boy on a beach. She is mesmerized by this scene until class ends and she straggles out behind her classmates. On...more
I found The Red Book to be a rather uninteresting wordless picture book. A young girl and boy from far away places are connected through magical red books in which they share each other’s worlds and finally connect.
It would certainly be appropriate from pre-school and upwards. The pictures are very well drawn in regards to the story. They clearly provide the reader with an understanding of the storyline without words. However, the drawings themselves are uneventful and lack much detail. I enjoy...more
It would certainly be appropriate from pre-school and upwards. The pictures are very well drawn in regards to the story. They clearly provide the reader with an understanding of the storyline without words. However, the drawings themselves are uneventful and lack much detail. I enjoy...more
Recommended ages 4-8
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PreS-Gr. 2. In this wordless mind trip for tots, Lehman develops a satisfying fantasy in a series of panels framed with thick white borders. The effect is of peering through portals, an experience shared by the characters as they independently stumble across enchanted red books that provide them with a videophone-like connection. Though wordless picture books often seem to be the province of fine artists indulging in high-concept braggadocio (as in Istvan Banyai'...more
From Booklist
PreS-Gr. 2. In this wordless mind trip for tots, Lehman develops a satisfying fantasy in a series of panels framed with thick white borders. The effect is of peering through portals, an experience shared by the characters as they independently stumble across enchanted red books that provide them with a videophone-like connection. Though wordless picture books often seem to be the province of fine artists indulging in high-concept braggadocio (as in Istvan Banyai'...more
In The Red Book, a little girl sees a red book in a snowpile and takes it with her to school. When she opens it up and starts turning the pages, the girl finds herself looking at a boy who is looking at a book with her in it. They realize at the same time that they are seeing into each other's lives. The girl decides to set off in search of her new friend using helium-filled balloons. As she is flying away she drops her book. Soon the little boy can no longer see her in his book and starts to w...more
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1.) Genre-Wordless Picture book
2.) Summary- After finding a red book in the snow,a young girl discovers a whole new world within it's pages. The girl sets off on a journey to connect with someone on the other side of the world. Along the way the book is lost only to be found again by another would-be adventurer.
3.)a.) Area of focus- Illustrations
b.) While this book may have been a Caldecott Honor book, the illustrations (the most important part of a wordless book) are lackluster and dull. Lehman...more
2.) Summary- After finding a red book in the snow,a young girl discovers a whole new world within it's pages. The girl sets off on a journey to connect with someone on the other side of the world. Along the way the book is lost only to be found again by another would-be adventurer.
3.)a.) Area of focus- Illustrations
b.) While this book may have been a Caldecott Honor book, the illustrations (the most important part of a wordless book) are lackluster and dull. Lehman...more
1. Genre: Wordless
2. Summary: This book is about a girl who find the "red book", and when she opens it, she sees a boy on a beach looking out at her. The girl decides to go visit the boy on the beach, and she buys some balloons to float her way to him.
3a. Illustrations
3b. The illustrations in this book are cropped with a white border around them. It is reminiscent of how the "red book" within this story is drawn, creating a kind of symmetry with the story itself. It appears as a window looking o...more
2. Summary: This book is about a girl who find the "red book", and when she opens it, she sees a boy on a beach looking out at her. The girl decides to go visit the boy on the beach, and she buys some balloons to float her way to him.
3a. Illustrations
3b. The illustrations in this book are cropped with a white border around them. It is reminiscent of how the "red book" within this story is drawn, creating a kind of symmetry with the story itself. It appears as a window looking o...more
The Red Book is one of the most unique books I have ever seen, it seems so simple yet the concept is quite complex. As a result, although this book has only pictures without any words, it is still best suited for the older toddler/preschool audience since babies and younger toddlers would be unable to grasp the concept. When a young girl finds a red book in the snow she opens it and within its pages finds an island with a young boy, this young boy also finds this red book and as he opens it sees...more
Title: THE RED BOOK (Wordless Picture Book)
Author: Barbara Lehman
Number of pages: 28
Illustrator: Barbara Lehman
Reading Level: Grades K-6
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Copyright Date: 2004
Brief Synopsis: This story is told entirely through pictures. A little girl finds a red book in the snow. Inside are maps which show an island where a little boy is walking on the beach. He also finds a red book which shows a little girl sitting in the window of a large building in a large city. She is loo...more
Author: Barbara Lehman
Number of pages: 28
Illustrator: Barbara Lehman
Reading Level: Grades K-6
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Copyright Date: 2004
Brief Synopsis: This story is told entirely through pictures. A little girl finds a red book in the snow. Inside are maps which show an island where a little boy is walking on the beach. He also finds a red book which shows a little girl sitting in the window of a large building in a large city. She is loo...more
Genre: Picture book, Wordless
Summary: This book is a magical picture book about two children, a boy and a girl, who are in different locations but they find similar red books. They are able to see one another through the pictures in these books and later, they become connected by dreamlike travels over the world. And the cycle continues….
Critique:
a. Reading this wordless picture 2005 Caldecott Honor book, this book’s greatest and most understandable strength are the remarkable illustrations in...more
Summary: This book is a magical picture book about two children, a boy and a girl, who are in different locations but they find similar red books. They are able to see one another through the pictures in these books and later, they become connected by dreamlike travels over the world. And the cycle continues….
Critique:
a. Reading this wordless picture 2005 Caldecott Honor book, this book’s greatest and most understandable strength are the remarkable illustrations in...more
Approximate Interest Level/Reading Level: Pre/Early Elementary
Format: Picture Book/Wordless
Awards: ALA Notable Books for Children (2005), Caldecott Honor (2005), Horn Book Fanfare (2004)
A girl who lives in the city finds a red book, opening it up to discover it connects her to another boy who finds the same red book on the island where he lives. The pages of these magical books then serve as a window to see into each others lives.
In this completely wordless book, the illustrations alone clearl...more
Format: Picture Book/Wordless
Awards: ALA Notable Books for Children (2005), Caldecott Honor (2005), Horn Book Fanfare (2004)
A girl who lives in the city finds a red book, opening it up to discover it connects her to another boy who finds the same red book on the island where he lives. The pages of these magical books then serve as a window to see into each others lives.
In this completely wordless book, the illustrations alone clearl...more
The Red Book is appropriate for readers in preschool through grade 2. It received a Caldecott Honor Award in 2005.
In this wordless picture book, a young girl from the city takes a journey to visit an island boy via a red book that they both own and acts as their window to the other’s world. The island boy experiences the cold weather of the city when the girl flies to his island using a large bundle of balloons. As she flies toward him, she drops her copy of the book, which is discovered by anot...more
In this wordless picture book, a young girl from the city takes a journey to visit an island boy via a red book that they both own and acts as their window to the other’s world. The island boy experiences the cold weather of the city when the girl flies to his island using a large bundle of balloons. As she flies toward him, she drops her copy of the book, which is discovered by anot...more
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The Red Book is an enjoyable wordless picture book. It is about a little girl who lives in a big wintry city, and while on her way to school she finds a little red book lying in the snow. After carrying the book to school she looks inside the pages to find a tropical island. On the island is a little boy around her age who finds a similar red book to hers lying in the sand. When he opens the book he finds a picture of the big city and the little girl who lives there. It is as if the little red b...more
Genre: Wordless Picture Book
Summary: A little girl finds a magical red book on the street that is a looking glass to another part of the world where she makes a new friend who has a book similar to hers.
A) Area of Focus: Plot
B) The author creates a fantastic story without using any words at all. We see a little girl who makes a new friend through the use of a magical book and then travels to visit him using lots of helium balloons. The plot was very well developed and while fantastical in nature...more
Summary: A little girl finds a magical red book on the street that is a looking glass to another part of the world where she makes a new friend who has a book similar to hers.
A) Area of Focus: Plot
B) The author creates a fantastic story without using any words at all. We see a little girl who makes a new friend through the use of a magical book and then travels to visit him using lots of helium balloons. The plot was very well developed and while fantastical in nature...more
The Red Book, by Barbara Lehman (Houghton Mifflin, 2004).p.
picture book: Wordless
Summary: A story told through pictures about a boy on an island and a girl in New York who see each other inside of a magical red book. Then through the magic they meet.
a) framing
b) the framing switches back and forth from the boy and the girl after each piece of the story. Showing that particular piece of the story in the next character, first the girl and then the boy. This continues until the girl looses her book...more
picture book: Wordless
Summary: A story told through pictures about a boy on an island and a girl in New York who see each other inside of a magical red book. Then through the magic they meet.
a) framing
b) the framing switches back and forth from the boy and the girl after each piece of the story. Showing that particular piece of the story in the next character, first the girl and then the boy. This continues until the girl looses her book...more
What an incredibly lonely book. The streets are empty, save for the one girl who finds the book. The island is empty, save for the boy who also finds the book. Through reading the city girl and island boy find a way to connect to each other.
It almost feel like a fable for those introverted souls who have so much trouble connecting to the outside world that others may as well not exist. They can connect so strongly to books that the characters feel like friends. But I'm probably projecting my ow...more
It almost feel like a fable for those introverted souls who have so much trouble connecting to the outside world that others may as well not exist. They can connect so strongly to books that the characters feel like friends. But I'm probably projecting my ow...more
At first I was unsure about whether or not I would enjoy a wordless picture book, since I have no memories of them from my childhood. However, I was pleasantly surprised with this book. The story, through illustrations only, is told in a way that anyone can interpret. I especially love the fact that without words, there are still emotions evoked by the boy and the girl in the story. I thought it was interesting, also, to have variation in the number of illustrations or size of illustrations per...more
After having bad memories from my childhood of wordless books, I thought I would be disappointed once again. Looking at this book from more of a teacher's perspective, I got much more out of it. Since it doesn't have words, it gives all levels of readers a chance to read and comprehend the story. It also presents a great opportunity for students to have a chance to tell the story in their own words, allowing them to practice forming sentences and following the plot of the illustrations, while al...more
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