An ingenious bird and rabbit are the main charactersof ?The red ladder?, a fun book for early readerswith vibrant, figurative images and simple storyline.Part of the story is accumulative, as it enumerates actionsand elements that are repeated consecutivelyin a kind of memory game, helping to teach vocabularyand antonyms as well as introducing themes such as the sizeof objects, distances or laterality, with an ending that combines logic and humour. «,