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Loading... A Balloon for Blunderbussby Alistair Reid, Bob Gill (Illustrator)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I am a sucker for mid century illustrations... ESP in children's books... Both fiction and non fiction. This book has wonderful pictures and the trading of one thing for another held high appeal for Addison. ( ) Summary: A Balloon for a Blunderbuss is a story about a child’s imagination. The child starts out with a butterfly in his hands. He asks his friend if he would trade the butterfly for a wishbone. The two continue to imagine what they would trade the wishbone for until they discover if they continue trading, they could own everything in the world. The two children marvel over the fact that they could simply start with a butterfly and end with the entire world. The book ends with the second boy asking to see the butterfly and it flying away. Teaching Implications: A Balloon for a Blunderbuss could be used to teach the students about the meaning of trading. The entire book is about one object being traded for another. This also could be used to introduce the worth of different things. Is a butterfly worth a wishbone? This book can also be used to help inspire student’s imagination. The two children in the story imagine themselves into the owners of the world. It could be used to help students start to write about things that aren’t. Provide them the allowance to imagine themselves into writing about a new world where some rules do not apply. no reviews | add a review
This lovingly restored 1960s children's classic takes design lovers of all ages on a fantastic journey, via an imaginative and entertaining series of trades and swaps that starts small, with a butterfly, and ends up including absolutely everything in the world, from straw hats to the stars in the sky. A beautifully woven sequence of entertaining text and bold illustrations, written by Alastair Reid and illustrated by Bob Gill, this book will delight the youngest and oldest of readers. No library descriptions found. |
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