The Red String
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Book Overview
This delightful book for children aged 3 and up traces the adventures of a piece of red string as it winds its way around the world. Without a word of text, The Red String playfully conveys the variety of things a red string can get into--and out of--as it finds its way back to the open drawer where its journey began. This book is another copublication between the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Children's Library Press of Venice, California.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0892363401
ISBN13:9780892363407
Release Date:September 1996
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:40 Pages
Weight:0.84 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 10.5" x 8.9"
Age Range:3 years and up
Grade Range:Preschool and higher
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
The Red String - Life Rolls On
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
I found this book both charming and insightful. Used it with my child to look at what was around us in a new light. We played a game imagining what else the Red String could do. We made Red String bracelets that we both wore. I also found comfort in it as a metaphor for how a child gradually becomes an individual seperate from his Mother (The Red String,child, leaving the drawer, Mother) and has adventures that lead him further from home while remaining connected. I think of this as I watch my child grow and strike out in delightful ways.
Fun book teaches creativity and point of view!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Wonderful book with simple creative illustrations -- would be great to use for motivation and ideas for a child's own creative picture-making...would be great in a classroom as well... each student could make a picture with a red string and they could all be attached and displayed. Teaches perspective, point of view, creativity, and imagination. If you like this one, check out The Purple Crayon by a different artist. Similar idea.
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