The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Oliveros, Jessie

The Remember Balloons

48 pp. | Simon | August, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-8915-7 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4814-8916-4

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Dana Wulfekotte. For James, balloons are allegorically each filled with a memory, hence it's worrisome when his grandfather--who "has more balloons than all of us together!"--starts "having trouble holding onto his" (repeating himself, losing the conversational thread). The ingeniousness of this introduction to memory loss extends to its illustrations: color is reserved for the balloons, which, when presented outsize, contain scenes from characters' reminiscences.

Reviewer: Nell Beram