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The Yellow Balloon

by Charlotte Dematons

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Lemniscaat USA (2004-04-09)

List Price: $15.95

Actual Price: $12.51

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Amazon Description

Writer and illustrator Charlotte Dematons brings the same enchanting look to this picture book that made her Worry Bear and Looking for Cinderella so successful. Lovely watercolors portray a great and diverse planet teeming with life at all times of day and night. People and animals of every shape, color, size, and costume are seen, busy at work and play. As the yellow balloon floats through many time periods - ancient, medieval, and contemporary - and realms both natural and supernatural, young readers can also look for the small blue car, the fakir on his flying carpet, and the scoundrel in prison garb. This story will fascinate young readers as they embark on a lively and fun-filled journey around the globe.

One Potato Review

Transfixing. No words, but if there was ever a place where words were not welcome, it’s this. Because here is such a wealth of busy, magnificent landscapes - from city to mountain to desert to the plains of East Africa - and look! Is that a magic carpet hovering below us? Witches on brooms?! And there, among all of the multitudes - of skiers and sunbathers and eskimos and shepherds - is inevitably one very small intersection of humanity lucky enough to ever spot the balloon. Look closer.

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