Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade
Melissa Sweet
Category: Children’s
Picture Book
Synopsis: The
story of the man who made the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade what it is with
his giant balloon puppets.
Rating: *** (3-star scale)
Comments:
We take the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day balloons for granted
now. In the age of computer-generated everything, they’re no big deal. We’ve
taken the “awe” out of “awesome,” and that’s a shame. But way back when, a
puppet maker named Tony Sarg was asked to make puppets for a Macy’s store
window. When that proved a huge hit with customers, he was asked to go even
grander and create parade-size puppets for the store’s immigrant workers who
suffered from homesickness. How ingenious to have the parade on Thanksgiving
Day, thus bringing these immigrants from all backgrounds into the great American
holiday, making it theirs.
This was a nice book. There was a lot going on, and I like
that in a kids’ nonfiction book.
Would you recommend
this to a friend?
Yes.
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