'The Red Book' by Barbara Lehman

The Red Book by Barbara Lehman is a wordless picture book. The story is interpreted through pages of illustrations that capture the essence of the story. The author’s intention was to allow readers to create their own meaning of the story by looking at the illustrations of the book. Readers are able to figure out what is happening or predict what is coming next in the story – as there is no right or wrong answer. The illustration of a book is as important as reading a normal book with text. The only difference is that each reader may interpret the story a bit differently.

The story is about a little girl who finds a magical red book and starts to read it. The book that she reads is about a little lonely boy that lives on an island which happens to have the same red book as she does. Without giving a full synopsis of the book in brief The Red Book is about crossing oceans and continents to deliver one girl into a new world of possibility, where a friend she’s never met is waiting.