Title: Balloons over Broadway
Author: Melissa Sweet
Illustrator: Melissa Sweet
Genre: Non- Fiction
Sub-Genre: Juvenile
Theme: Celebration
Primary Characters: Tony Sarg
Secondary Characters:
Awards: 2012 Robert F. Sibert Medal Winner Winner of the 2012 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award
Publisher and Date of Publication: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2011
Summary:
This book takes place in New York City and tells the story of the Macy’s day parade. The book follows Tony’s journey from a childhood of creativity and resourcefulness to his exciting, unprecedented success as what many consider the “Father of American Puppetry.” The illustrations in this book are amazing and truly enhance the story. In your classroom, you could use this in the genre of biography or you could use this tell the history of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. This is the perfect book to read before Thanksgiving break to get the children excited about the parade and to allow them to learn the history behind it.
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