Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade

Sweet, M. (2011). Balloons over Broadway: The true story of the puppeteer of Macy's parade. NY: Houghton.

This informational picture book tells about how the Macy's Thanksgiving parade got started. A man by the name of Tony Sarg, who was a puppeteer extraordinaire is the one who came up with this wonderful idea. As a kid he was an inventor, and as he grew up his passion became creating puppets. Macy's hear of how talented Tony was and asked him to create a puppet parade for Macy's Wondertown. Due to it's huge success he was asked to create an even bigger parade in the streets of New York. From there every year the puppets got bigger and bigger and very popular. Even to this day people look forward to the Macy's Thanksgiving parade.

Textbook Assignment 2:

This book included facts, photographs, author’s notes and a bibliographic source. I had never heard of this story before, so I found this book very interesting and engaging. I also learned something new.

This book received the Golden Kite Award for picture book
and here is the link to the book trailer:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlTmh1cNuVs

Lesson Plan from Classroom Bookshelf:
http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/2012-robert-f-sibert-informational-book.html