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You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum (Picture Puffin)

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Manufacturer: Puffin

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While she's in the Metropolitan Museum with her grandmother, a little girl leaves her prized yellow balloon tied to a railing outside. But its string becomes untied, and the balloon embarks on an uproarious journey through New York City. With an ever-increasing cast of wacky urban characters in tow, it soars past a host of landmarks. Eighteen famous paintings and sculptures are reproduced in this delightful, wordless book that explores the magical relationship between art and life.

Awards:

An ALA Notable Book
An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists
New York Public Library "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing"
A Child Study Children's Book Committee Children's Book of the Year


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780140568165
ISBN: 0140568166
Label: Puffin
Manufacturer: Puffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 40
Publication Date: 2001-01-29
Publisher: Puffin
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Studio: Puffin


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Great book at many levels -
we bought this book on a whim not knowing what to expect. Our daughter, who is two and a half, loves it and brings it to us and we explain it in a very simple way. It can be understood at so many different levels that I am sure we will be reading it for years to come. When she is older, we are looking forward to taking her to the Met - with the book in hand - and I am sure we will get a real buzz from that.

No words, but the pictures are worth thousands of them! -
I got this book without much research, I wasn't aware that there were no words in it when I got it for my toddler art class. Glancing through it, I was at first dissapointed, until my kids (6, 4, and 2) looked at it with me. As an artist and art history major in college, great pieces of art aren't unusual in our house, but the kids really looked at the pieces trying to find every funny tie in that the crazy balloon and balloon chasers stumbled into. What's more they started looking at other pieces and coming up with their own funny ideas of what could happen. It won't work for my class, it's better for older kids, but I'll be buying others in this series because they work perfectly for my home!

No Words -
I live in New York City, and my sister lives in Iowa. I always try to buy her books that are local to where I live. I loved the concept of the book and the illustrations were great, but was dissapointed to find that it didn't have any words in in. I gave it to my sister anyway and she told me "Monica books are supposed to have words!" That said it all.

nice story but i was disappointed -
I purchased this book knowing I was going to take my kids to the museum during the holidays. I was disappointed with it. Although it is a lovely, humorful story, I had one major problem with it.
Namely, I would have preferred more examples of art from the museum (there were only 18, I believe).
This is a lovely book to check out of the library but not to buy for my personal library.

Ages 5-100 -
A fun picture book,with lots of action. Which compares pictures to the things of the metropolitan museum.
Age 7
I recomend it alot

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