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List Price: $16.99 | | Publisher: HarperCollins
Salesrank: 26997
Released: August 29, 2000 |
| Our Price: $4.86 |
| Used Price: $0.01 |
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| Media: Hardcover |
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Editorial Review:
Haven't you ever wondered ...
Where do balloons go
when you let them go free?
It can happen by accident.
It happened to me.
Do they tango with airplanes?
Or cha-cha with birds?
Can plain balloons read
balloons printed with words?
When one little boy accidentally lets go of his balloon, his imagination takes him on its journey.
Jamie Lee Curtis's gentle and humorous exploration of the joys and perils of a balloon's life is whimsically brought to life by Laura Cornell's illustrations. From the best-selling author-illustrator team of Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods that Make My Day comes another delightful mystery about letting go.
Includes cool reusable stickers and two play areas!
Description of Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery:
Anyone who has ever let go of a balloon string and watched the bright object go up and up and out of sight will appreciate this whimsical picture book that ponders the age-old question Where Do Balloons Go? This "uplifting mystery"--examined in singsong rhyme by Jamie Lee Curtis and playfully explored with Roz Chast-like illustrations by Laura Cornell--is a new offering from the team behind Today I Feel Silly, When I Was Little, and Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born.
Where do they go
when they float far away?
Do they ever catch cold
and need somewhere to stay?
"Do they tango with airplanes? / Or cha-cha with birds? / Can plain balloons read / balloons printed with words?" Cornell's splashy colorful spreads (one which folds out to four full pages) pop with plenty of witty details. One balloon, for example, waits nervously with a suitcase outside the Bates Motel. In a balloon-ridden urban scenario, advertisements promote balloon-friendly services such as "The Detanglers, professionals since 1934." This exuberant book will have you half-believing that balloons are people, too. A page of vinyl reusable stickers in the back can be used on the sky-and-cloud wash on the front endpaper, or the space-scape (complete with comets) on the back endpaper. Next time your child's balloon drifts away, it'll be much easier for him or her to imagine it dancing in Bolivia than caught up in phone wires! (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson
Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery Reviews:
Cool book for kids 
2009-09-12 - I loved this book for it's price, and what it had to offer me as an avid reader. I added this book to my collection, and its durability will last forever!! Excellent reading!!
Where do balloons Go? 
2009-07-17 - A good down to earth book, death seems acceptable. It was loved by a four year old.
too abstract 
2009-03-28 - I think this book is too abstract for a child. Children enjoy a simple story. I didn't agree with the others who thought the pictures were too busy. Children enjoy nice illustrations and it gives parents plenty to talk about and discuss. I also didn't know what we were supposed to do with the stickers in the back of the book. They didn't seem to fit with any of the other stickers to make anything. Plus you could only put them on the one back page of the book.
Where do balloons go book
2008-12-28 - Outstanding way to appreciate loved ones while they are with us and what happens when they are no longer with us. Wonderful reading! One of my children's favorites.
Great book... okay artwork
2008-12-01 - I loved the book, I just didn't like the artwork. Very busy and messy. My son loves loves balloons but he could barely make them out on the busy pages. I'd definitely get another artist or at least make the artwork cleaner.
