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In this wordless story, a young girl and her grandmother view works inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while the balloon she has been forced to leave outside floats around New York City causing a series of mishaps that mirror scenes in the museum's artworks.
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You can't take a balloon into the Metropolitan Museum
1998, Dial Books for Young Readers
in English
- 1st ed.
0803723016 9780803723016
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You Can't Take a Balloon Into The Metropolitan Museum
1998, Dial Books for Young Readers A member of Penguin Putnam Inc
in English
- 1st ed.
0803723016 9780803723016
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On a sparkling blue sky day, at the doors of the famed Metropolitan Museum of Art, a disappointed little girl finds that only she and her grandma, but not her bright yellow balloon, are allowed to go inside. A kindly museum guard makes a promise to look after the balloon. But when the balloon attracts the attention of one very small, very curious pigeon, that promise proves much harder to keep than the faithful guard could ever have Imagined. With a few nips at the string the balloon sails away - setting in motion a collision of art and urban life that becomes ever more frantic, funny, and fantastical!
As the balloon floats through the city, it becomes part of an increasingly crazy panorama of scenes that mirror the paintings and sculpture raptly viewed by the wide-eyed little girl. These two parallel experiences explore and illuminate the magical relationship between art and life. To this, real-life sisters Jacqueline Preiss Weltman and Robin Preiss Glasser have added their own inspired sense of silliness to create a rollicking look at how art imitates life... or is it life imitating art?
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