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You can't take a balloon into the Metropolitan Museum

by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman · 1998

Stories without wordsFictionMuseumsMetropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)BalloonsNew york (n.y.), fictionMuseums, fictionBalloons, fiction

In this wordless story, a young girl and her grandmother view works inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while the balloon she has been forced to leave outside floats around New York City causing a series of mishaps that mirror scenes in the museum's artworks.

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Book data: Open Library