The Lost (and Found) Balloon
With Audio Recording
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
Where do balloons go when you let them loose? Find out in this whimsical, imaginative tale, winner of the General Mills Spoonful of Stories contest.
Molly O’Doon ties a note to her red balloon, lets it loose, and off it goes on a buoyant adventure. Who will answer Molly’s letter? Someone in a different state or a faraway country? Or maybe, a new friend much closer than she could ever imagine.
The Lost (and Found) Balloon is the winner of the 5th annual Cheerios® New Author Contest. Selected from more than 8,000 entries by a team of editors, teachers, librarians, and General Mills staff, The Lost (and Found) Balloon will also appear in a bilingual (English/Spanish) mini-paperback edition in 1.5 million specially marked boxes of Cheerios.
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"Molly O'Doon/ had a balloon/ red and shiny and round," and she releases it into the sky with a note attached. Evocative illustrations, suggestive of the view from an ascending plane, track the balloon as it floats above motley fields and the brick-red roofs of a housing development, "Each shrinking house/ small like a mouse." The sun sets, and the balloon drifts over an expanse of water under a full moon, returning with the dawn and settling into the garden of another girl who happens to be Molly's next-door neighbor. Jenkins, winner of the 2011 Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories author contest, tells the tale in pedestrian rhyming couplets ("Katie McCloat/ sat down, read the note"), but Bogade (Ben's Flying Flowers) provides a modicum of magic with her soaring bird's-eye perspectives and idiosyncratic combinations of negative space and color. After drawing scenery in black line, Bogade tints select details the scarlet balloon, the brassy gold of church bells, a bluebird amid green leaves leaving surrounding areas bare. Like the unfinished coloring book it resembles, however, the narrative proves superficial. Ages 4 8.
