This book is all about the pictures — both the famous and brilliant pieces of artwork from the Metropolitan Museum in New York City to the scenery of the Big Apple itself. A wordless story unfolds as a girl and her grandmother go to visit the Metropolitan Museum. A guard agrees to hold her balloon for her outside, as no balloons are allowed inside such a grand place. Little does the guard know what’s in store for him! As the pair make their way through the museum’s wonders, the balloon decides to take a little journey of its own all around New York, from Rockefeller Center to the Metropolitan Opera House. The guard runs after in hot pursuit, and as the balloon entangles passersby, the pursuing crowd grows and grows. A wonderful romp through a wonderful town and the joys of great art.
You Can’t Take a Balloon Into the Metropoltian Museum ISBN: 9780803725706 By Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman and Robin Preiss Glasser Dial Books for Young Readers, 1998
She/Her | Head of Reference and Programming, Woburn Public Library
Editor in Chief
Robin E. Brenner is the Head of Reference and Programming at the Woburn Public Library in Massachusetts. Previously she served as the Teen Librarian at the Brookline Public Library for 18 years. She has chaired the American Library Association Great Graphic Novels for Teens Selection List Committee, the Margaret A. Edwards Award Committee, and served on the Michael L. Printz Award Committee. She is currently the Past-President of the Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table for ALA. She was a judge for the 2007 Eisner awards, helped judge the Boston Globe Horn Book Awards in 2011, and contributes to the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. She regularly gives lectures and workshops on graphic novels, manga, and anime at comics conventions including New York and San Diego Comic-Con and at the American Library Association’s conferences. Her guide, Understanding Manga and Anime (Libraries Unlimited, 2007), was nominated for a 2008 Eisner Award.
