The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Curtis, Jamie Lee

Where Do Balloons Go?: An Uplifting Mystery

40 pp. | HarperCollins/Cotler | September, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-06-027980-X $$16.95 | Library ISBN 0-06-027981-8 $$16.89

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Laura Cornell. After letting go of his big purple balloon, a boy ponders, in snappy rhyme, the fate of all such airborne castaways: "Are they always alone? Do they meet up in pairs? / Do they ever get married and make balloon heirs?" The busy street scenes of Cornell's ink-and-watercolor illustrations match the ebullient whimsy of Curtis's hero.

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2000