The Red Book (Caldecott Honor Book)
by Barbara Lehman
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Author: Barbara LehmanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-27
ISBN: 0618428585
Number of pages: 32
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
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- ISBN13: 9780618428588
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of The Red Book (Caldecott Honor Book)
Book Review: Wordless wonder!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is, of course, a wordless picture book about... magic and friendship, I guess.
A girl on a cold, snowy day finds a red book and opens it in class. She sees a boy on a beach doing the same thing - and he sees her! I love the shocked look on their faces as they realize what just happened there. The story just runs from there, of course, in a perfectly logical (if weird) sequence.
Some people object to wordless picture books on principle, because they are unfamiliar with them. This is what I have to say to that:
Wordless picture books are PERFECT for pre-readers. It gives them the ability to read a book - REALLY own the experience instead of just "playing" as they must do when they can't understand the words - on their own. It gives them practice in putting together stories and working out details from context. And it allows them to be the expert at some activity that is usually restricted to adults and older children in their life - reading a book.
By that same token, they are also ideal for early readers. It's non-threatening, and yet it's still a way to practice following a storyline. Reading is more than just mechanically putting together sounds and reciting them, after all. Many people are impressed by a five year old who can say, word-perfect, some complex piece he or she "reads" from a page, but later they find out that the child has no idea what they just read and wasn't thinking of reading as an exercise in gleaning meaning from text, but merely as reciting memorized sounds and letter combinations. Working out the story for themselves from a book with no words is a wonderful way to practice this sort of "reading for meaning".
But what of the child who stumbles in reading? Well, the child who stumbles when reading but can tell you WHAT they read is light-years ahead of the one who sounds pretty but doesn't grasp the meaning. At any rate, this child is still getting much needed practice in the conventions of reading without the letters to stress and trip them up.
Of course, you don't want the only book in your house to be a wordless picture book, I understand that, because children do need print to practice reading, but a few are a WONDERFUL thing for a child. And who has just one book, anyway?
Summary of The Red Book (Caldecott Honor 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.
In illustrations 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. And as with the best of books, at the conclusion of the story, the journey is not over.
In illustrations 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. And as with the best of books, at the conclusion of the story, the journey is not over.
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