Barbara Lehman's wordless picture book The Secret Box begins with a young boy, dressed in knickers, placing a box under a floor board. As the pages continue, it appears this floor board is in a large yellow house or school. It appears to be in a rural area. As the reader continues on to the next spread, the building remains the same but the area around the yellow building is now full of buildings with smokestacks, and horse drawn carriages. The next page again shows the yellow house but this time there are more modern cars. From here the focus shifts from the building and time passing, to focus on children that have discovered the same box the boy many pages back. Using the items in the box and some very careful detective skills, the children take off on adventure that will lead them to a special destination, with special people to meet. A great book for kids to work on drawing conclusions and making inferences.
Story: 4 Buckeye Leaves, though younger kids are going to need lots of discussion to understand
illustrations: 5 Buckeye leaves
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