Balloons Over Broadway is a picture book filled with accurate information about the life of creative puppeteer, Tony Sarg. The story recounts when he was a boy he liked to figure out how things worked. As he grew up, he created puppets and performed with them. People loved his work and ideas. When he started working at Macy's, his popularity spread which lead to the creation of the huge, beautiful balloons we see every year in todays' Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.
Sweet, Melissa. 2011. Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade. New York: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.
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Sweet, Melissa. 2011. Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade. New York: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.
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