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PICTURE BOOKS

McGrory, Anik

Mouton's Impossible Dream

32 pp. | Harcourt/Gulliver | April, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-15-202195-7 $$16.00

(2) K-3 This engaging, re-envisioned, animal's-eye view of an actual event--the 1783 launch at Versailles, by the brothers Montgolfier, of the first "passengered" hot-air balloon (the occupants were a sheep, a duck, and a rooster)--posits the existence of a flight-crazed sheep named Mouton. McGrory introduces this small corner of history through Mouton's highly sympathetic personality and through her light, atmospheric watercolors.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2000