The Red Book (Caldecott Honor Book)
by Barbara Lehman
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Book Reviews of The Red Book (Caldecott Honor Book)
Book Review: How many Red Books are there?
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the kind of book that you find yourself thinking about long after you have returned it to the shelf. I "read" it a few weeks ago for the first time (there are no words, so I guess I just took a picture walk, as they say), and I still have very vivid memories of the story. The pictures are great, and the implied plot is engaging.
The best thing, though, is all of the possible interpretations, and all of the questions. Does the book in your hand interact with the red book held by the girl and the boy? Or is it the same book? Where does the book go? Does the boy live on the island? Are they friends now?
This would be a fun way to get kids to look for meaning without getting hung up on words.
I highly recommend it for anyone, at any level. It is exciting and innovative.
Book Review: The Adventurous Little Red Book!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Red Book is about a book. Through illustrations, Barbara Lehman shows a very imaginative story of a young lady's adventure into "a book" to find the main character of the book she found. Page by page, you experience a new adventure. The book pulls together reality and fantasy! The Girl in the Red Book finds this book and is a determined young lady to find and meet the boy she sees in the book. As you look through the book you have multiple the "Ahhhh" and "Awe" moments. This book would be wonderful for young children that don't know how to read and could make a story of their own and even for the ones that can read, this book could create discussions in the classroom and lead to a child's own picture book. I recommend this book for teachers for starting readers and readers creating their own picture books.Book Review: Destined to become a classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this little book. Personally, I think it's one of the best picture books to come along in ages! A girl finds a red book in a snowdrift. Inside are pictures of a boy on a tropical island. The boy is also reading a red book. Curious. His red picture book shows a girl in the city who is reading a book about a boy on an island... hey, woah! Lehman's illustrations beautifully convey the unique twist of this magical story/brain teaser for the very young (and not so very young.) The story is an inspiring message about the power of books transcending time and space to bring people together. For me, the best part about The Red Book is that it's a book within a book. The reader is not simply an observer, but a participant of sorts (since they're reading The Red Book too!) I predict The Red Book becomes a classic.Book Review: 'Infinity Room' Effect Fascinates Children
Summary: 5 Stars
Like "Flotsam", the premise of this story is that a child finds an object that gives him a little window into someone else's world - a world he has not seen himself, but which he gets to experience through someone or something else.
My children loved this book. They were completely engaged as they paged through the book to see where and from whom the little red book came. Their favorite part, however, had to be the pages with the 'infinity room' like drawings, where a child holding the book could see an illustration of a different child holding the book with an illustration of the first child in it, and so on. They found this absolutely fascinating, and spent a long time trying to figure out how this could be. Thank you to the author for a book that really got the children thinking and imagining!
Book Review: Some might find it disturbing
Summary: 3 Stars
It feels like one of the episodes from the twilight zone. A girl finds the red book on the street. She reads the book and makes some sort of telepathic contact with a boy who is stranded on an island. She decides to go to him by hanging on bunch of balloons and ends up inside the book which is picked-up by another boy, and the story continues...until every kid on the block vanishes and ends up in the red book? Furthermore, my daughter also has this book, eerie.... One good thing is there are no words so you can make the story into anything you want, you can explain that she want to the island to rescue the boy or something.
Some people question the merit of receiving a Caldecott Honor but I have to say that it is beautifully illustrated which is a good enough reason for ME to buy the book.