89 // Balloons over Broadway / Melissa Sweet

Balloons over Broadway / Melissa Sweet

• Houghton Mifflin

• 2011

• Everyone’s a New Yorker on Thanksgiving Day, when young and old rise early to see what giant new balloons will fill the skies for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Who first invented these “upside-down puppets”? Meet Tony Sarg, puppeteer extraordinaire! In brilliant collage illustrations, the award-winning artist Melissa Sweet tells the story of the puppeteer Tony Sarg, capturing his genius, his dedication, his zest for play, and his long-lasting gift to America—the inspired helium balloons that would become the trademark of Macy’s Parade. - From Amazon

• Informational texts - Thanksgiving day traditions - Inventions and Inventors.

• I liked the collage style alot! It felt like a scrapbook, or an archive that I could hold in my hands. The backmatter included a bibliography and quotation sources.