The Red Book

The Red Book by Barbara Lehman is a wordless picture book yet tells a very interesting story. In this book the author takes a unique perspective on the way books work. It is often used that books can take you places and can help you travel to far away places. This book uses this phrase in a whole new and different way. In this book a girl finds a book in the snow and when she opens it up she sees a boy you has a matching red book and he sees her in the pages of his book. It personifies the fact that when you read books they can show you places that you have never been before.
In this book the author uses watercolor to make this book a unique and bright look to it. The book really stands out with its very vivid red color and central focus point of the book. In this way, the illustrations draw your eye right to the book and you know that it is important.
Being a wordless picture book, it can be enjoyed by any age. With its fun pictures it can be fun to look at for young children and with its powerful meaning about how books can take you places it can be enjoyed by teens and adults as well. It’s a book about and promoting books which it does through a very creative plot and story.

Lehman, Barbara. The Red Book. Houghton Mifflin, 2004