Olshan, Matthew A Voyage in the Clouds PICTURE
BOOK. 25 pgs. Margaret Ferguson Books (Farrar Straus Giroux), 2016. $18.00
This is the mostly true story of the first international balloon
flight in 1785, in which two gentlemen who don’t get along very well cross from
England to France in a hot air balloon. But things don’t go very well and at one point they have to
throw things overboard, hilarity ensues.
This book was over the top funny! I love the basis in
history and I think students will find this incredibly interesting. I love the
relationship between the two men as they bicker and think it could be food for thought for
older readers. The illustrations are stylized like an old painting and
completely add to the fun (I especially love the faces of the dogs as they go
through the two hour ordeal).
EL(K-3) –ESSENTIAL Reviewer: Stephanie Elementary School Librarian &
Author.
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