Thursday, February 6, 2014

Balloons Over Broadway


Sweet, M. (2011). Balloons over Broadway: the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.

Follow Tony Sarg on his way to creating the puppets for the most famous parade in the world.  Balloons over Broadway documents Tony from the time he was a child to making marionette for Broadway.  Before long, R.H. Macy was calling Tony asking him to create puppets for his Thanksgiving Day parade that, has over the years, has turned into a holiday tradition.


If you like Balloons Over Broadway, you might like:

Barnum's Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World by Tracey Fern
Fern, T. E., & Kulikov, B. (2012). Barnum's bones: how Barnum Brown discovered the most famous dinosaur in the world. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.

Milly and the Macy's Parade by Shana Corey
Corey, S., & Helquist, B. (2002). Milly and the Macy's Parade. New York: Scholastic Press.

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