Two charismatic balloons boast about their their importance to the circus as they describe their responsiblity for helping clowns get laughs and save tightrope walkers from falling.
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You don't have to love the circus to enjoy this field trip. What kid wouldn't want to feed the animals, help the clowns, and generally make sure the greatest show on earth "goes on" the way it should? Nice, sort of 1950s-retro color lights up the pages as two helium balloons fill in for the reader in this pretty picture book adventure. While the pair does everything from rescuing the trapeze artist to selling hotdogs, their brief rhymes and cheery surroundings add to the fun. Imaginative line drawings add to a child's visual vocabulary, too.
[Definitely a preschool picture book.]
From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 3. A circus story told from an unusual point of view. Two balloons escape from a vendor's bunch and speculate what they could do in the circus?help the clowns get laughs, give the dogs something to jump over, or save the man on the flying trapeze. Unfortunately, neither the rhyming announcement of the circus's arrival and departure nor the prose portion of the text manages to capture the rhythm and excitement of the big top. The illustrations are seven-color, hand-separated black-ink drawings. The flat colors, predominantly in shades of gray-green, orange, and yellow, coupled with the printing technique of leaving a white edge around the color so it often does not quite fill in the forms, give the book an early '60s look. The sketchy drawing style and liberal use of squiggly fine lines to indicate movement make the illustrations look both insubstantial and busy. The circus holds great fascination for young children and good picture books on the topic are scarce; this one fails to fill the gap.?Karen James, Louisville Free Public Library, KY
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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