Children's Books for LA TImes

Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Red Book

















Title: The Red Book               
Author: Barbara Lehman
Illustrator: Barbara Lehman
Date of publication: 2004      
Publishing Company: Houghton Mifflin Books
Awards: Caldecott Honor Book

Genre: Fantasy
Subgenre: Picture Book
Theme: Using your imagination in creating a story to go with the illustrations and finding friends in a book.
Primary Characters: a little girl
Secondary characters: a little boy

Classroom Use: Good picture book to use and lead discussion in creating different stories from the illustrations in the book.

Summary: A picture book with no words about a little girl that finds a red book in the snow. The book allows her to use her imagination in creating a story about the illustrations she sees and makes friends along the way by doing so.



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