Amazing stories can be told with almost no words, as Anne Villeneuve demonstrates in The Red Scarf, originally published in French as L’echarpe rouge. One day, a taxi driver finds a red scarf left behind in his cab by a customer. Determined to find the scarf’s owner, the cabbie unknowingly walks into a world filled with strange characters: a friendly lizard, a mischievous bear, a fearsome lion and his tamer, a daredevil, and a mysterious magician. Before he knows it, the cabbie becomes part of the show. Young readers will relish this almost wordless picture book about a seemingly ordinary day, which quickly turns into an extraordinary adventure.

• ISBN: 9780887769894
• Author: Villeneuve, Anne
• Published: 2010 , Tundra Books of Northern New York
• Themes: action and adventure, Circus, Humor
• Descriptors: Europe, France, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)
• No. of pages: 40