Wordless Books

You Can’t Take A Balloon Into The Metropolitan Museum

Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman and Robin Preiss Glasser


This comic-strip style wordless book manages to be both funny and educative.

 

Spread from You Can’t Take A Balloon Into The Metropolitan Museum, showing the grand entrance to the museum

A little girl and her grandmother visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the girl is asked to leave her balloon outside.

 

Spread from You Can’t Take A Balloon Into The Metropolitan Museum, showing the guard telling the little girl she cannot take her balloon into the museum

While the pair explore the museum the balloon floats around New York having adventures of its own that mirror the artworks indoors.

Spread from You Can’t Take A Balloon Into The Metropolitan Museum, showing the zoo attendant in a similar pose to the statue

Both the storyline and illustrations are exceptional.  A top quality book. There are a number of other ‘balloon’ books for different venues too.