Balloons Over Broadway
by Melissa Sweet
Sweet, M. (2011). Balloons over Broadway: The true
story of the puppeteer of Macy's parade. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin
Books For Children.
When Tony Sarg was a child, he loved to figure out how to make things move. Once he grew up, he moved to London and began designing marionette puppets that moved so lifelike it was as if they were alive. When Tony moved to New York, his amazing puppets even performed on Broadway. When Mr. Macy, a department store owner, heard about Tony's amazing talent, he asked him to design his holiday storefront windows. The windows were so popular with shoppers that Mr. Macy came up with an even bigger project for Tony, designing what was to become the very first Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. With a lot of hard work and determination, Tony made each years "puppets" bigger and better until they evolved into the large balloons flying through the skies that we are familiar with today.
Evaluation Criteria: Design
Balloons Over Broadway is filled with bright and beautiful
colorful illustrations that young readers will find very attractive and
inviting. Sweet’s use of a variety of font types and mixed media images give
this book a unique design. Readers will
feel as though they are immersed in Sarg’s magical world of puppetry and cheer
with the crowds in the story when the first “upside down marionette” soars.
Balloons Over Broadway Read Aloud
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