TITLE:
Balloons over Broadway
AUTHOR: Melissa Sweet
ILLUSTRATOR: Melissa Sweet
GENRE: Non fiction, Biography
SUB
GENRE: Juvenile
Literature
AWARD(S): 2012 Robert
F. Sibert Medal Winner
THEME: Puppetry, Thanksgiving,
Inventions.
PRIMARY
AND SECONDARY CHARACTERS:
Tony Sarg
DATE
OF PUBLICATION AND PUBLISHER:
2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
SUMMARY: “From the time he was a
little boy, Tony Sarg loved to figure out how to make things move. He once said
he became a marionette man when he was only six years old.” This book is all about Tony
Sarg, the inventor of the beautiful gigantic balloons that we watch during the
Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade every year.
Tony was fascinated with marionettes at a young age and grew up to
design and create such marvelous works of art every year.
HOW
I WOULD USE THIS BOOK AS A TEACHER: I
would use this book if my students were learning about biographies, or even for
pleasurable reading during the season of Thanksgiving. They could learn about ingenuity and the
value of having big dreams.
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