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 combineslogic and humour.