Thursday, February 2, 2012

The Red Book

Barbara Lehman wrote The Red Book, which is a wordless book so it allows for all sorts of different stories. My perception of the book begins with a little girl walking down the street and discovering a book buried in the snow. She picks up the book and puts it in her back pack on the way to school. While she is in school she gets bored and looks at the book and finds something magical about the book. What is it?

This book would be great for beginning readers who just need to get use to what a book is for; how to turn the pages and how to hold a book correctly. This book would also be fun so that kids can create their own story with the book and see it with a different perspective than the way I did. The book shouldn't only be used for beginning readers though, kids up to third grade would probably enjoy the book as I did. Personally I liked this book, it had great pictures and was just an interesting book. It requires the reader to look closely at the pages to see whats so magical about the book the girl finds.

1 comment:

  1. I can't remember ever seeing a wordless book, so I am really interested in the whole concept. I love the idea that you are free to use your own imagination to create a story to go with the pictures. The cover really stands out and makes me want to see what is going on inside. For older kids, I think that this would be a great way to start a writing exercise. It will really get their imagination going and then they can transfer ideas to paper.

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