You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum

by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman

Book Overview

New York City and its famed Metropolitan Museum of Art provide the setting for a crazy collision of art and city life in this inventively illustrated picture book. It all starts with a little girl's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803723016
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 0.5" x 11.5"

Customer Reviews

WOW!

We love this book! It has made the Metropolitan real for my 2-1/2 year old. She keeps telling me she wants to go back to see more pictures. We cannot go through a pedestrian tunnel in Central Park without talking about elephants getting stuck in them. I can't wait to take her to the Zoo and what she calls the "Plaza Hotel Museum". Why doesn't the Met do a map of the art? Why don't the authors publish a map of the sites for people who don't know NYC as well as they do? Why don't you go buy this book and fall in love with its immediacy and joy, too?

Why don't more people know about this WONDERFUL book?

What a fabulous book! It is even more charming and far more complicated than Eloise...and much more up-to-date! What a wonderful way to introduce children of any age (and, given its wordlessness, any language) to sites in and around Central Park! What a cheerful, gentle guidebook! Why isn't it in every bookstore's travel section, as well as its children's section? Why doesn't every New Yorker give it to every child they know who is going to visit the City? Why doesn't every New York parent give it to their young children? Why don't school teachers use it as the basis of field trips? In short, RUN, DO NOT WALK TO GET YOUR HANDS ON THIS MARVELOUS, HUMOROUS, LOVELY BOOK!

This book has great pictures that tell a wonderful story.

This book is beautiful with rich, entertainig pictures. A book like this is a great source to use when a teacher has her students are working on creating short stories.

Buried treasure lies between the covers of this book!

Once in a long while a book comes along that is so simple yet so complex and innovative that it can be enjoyed time and again by both children and adults and is destined to become a classic. This is one of those books.Having myself been taken at a very young age by my father to the Metropolitan Museum, this book has awoken within me wonderful memories that have instilled me with a love of museums (and especially of the Met). Although my children have not had the experience of seeing the Metropolitan as we live outside the U.S., this book has afforded me the opportunity to describe the museum to them and relive my experiences with them and at the same time take a rollicking educational ride through this romp.I can actually feel the joy these two sisters must have had in working on this project. It is a work that comes from the heart and kudos to their collaboration of story and artwork that raises the story above the mundane.

Teachers will love this wordless book.

Wordless picture books have always held an honored place in the hearts (and lesson plans) of all teachers who promote a love of reading. YOU CAN'T TAKE A BALLOON INTO THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM takes that tradition to new heights with its exquisite detail, subtle parallel events, humor and excitement. It has all the elements of story: setting, lively characterization, the conflict and the chase...not to mention a most satisfying ending! But beyond all these delights, teachers of children of all ages will be drawn to this book for its potential to lead young minds on a quest for further information in many areas: art, art history, cultural tradition. It will find its place in creative writing lessons and in lessons about cultural history. And it will inevitably fix the images of a great museum in the minds of "readers," many of whom will find their way to The Met to discover these visual treasures in "real life." --Ann P. Kaganoff, PhD, Certified Educational Therapist; President, Association of Educational Therapists