The Horn Book Guide

YOUNGER FICTION

Weitzman, Jacqueline Preiss

You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum

37 pp. | Dial | October, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-2301-6 $$16.99

(2) 1-3 Illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. In this wordless book, a girl leaves her balloon with a guard before entering the museum. When the balloon sails away, the guard takes off in pursuit. As a series of chaotic scenes around Manhattan follow, the action is reflected in the works of art the girl is viewing inside the museum. Funny and elegant at the same time--thanks to a remarkably evocative line, a sure sense of timing, and variations in perspective and layout.

Reviewer: Mary M. Burns | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1998