The Team Behind the Great Parades

by Barbara Fenten

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 066432682X
• ISBN13: 9780664326821
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 91 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Only four stars because...

This book would have received 5 stars from me, except all the pictures of the beautiful floats in this book are in black & white instead of color! If the pictures had been in color instead, it would have earned a five star rating. Synopsis (from the back) How do they make the huge balloons for the Macy's parade in New York? Who fastens all those flowers on the floats for the Tournament of Roses, and how do they keep them fresh? How does a high school band get to march in a great parade? In this Team Book, you will meet the people who plan and put on the parade - the one in your town and the ones you see on television. Meet the manager and the producer, the designers and the engineers. See the beautiful floats take shape. See how the bands are chosen - and rehearse. Meet the volunteers who work long and late stapling flowers, maneuvering balloons, learning to clown and tumble. Watch the marshals and section leaders keep everything moving smoothly. Find out how the judges decide the winners. Stand on the platform with the television crew. Join with the marchers in the chill gray hours before dawn as the parade lines up for its long day. Find out how even you can apply for a job with the great parade.