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Mathilda and the Orange Balloon
by
Randall de Sève,
Jen Corace (Goodreads Author)
How can a small sheep become a big orange balloon?
With a lot of imagination and determination--anything is possible!
With a lot of imagination and determination--anything is possible!
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
February 16th 2010
by Balzer + Bray
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Mathilda’s world is small, only a few things in it: gray skies, green grass, green barn, gray stones, and gray sheep. It was all ok, until she saw the bright orange balloon float past. Then all she wanted to be was an orange balloon herself. First, she made herself as round as the balloon. The hardest part is turning herself orange. The other sheep offer up ideas of things that are orange: fierce tigers, the sun, autumn leaves. Mathilda imagined herself orange and round as hard as she could and...more
If you like the books Little Pea, Little Hoot, this one is sure to please (same illustrator and same feel). Why I like this book: go sheep! I love the spunky nature of this sheep and her determination to be something other than well a sheep. Yeah, I like sheep but this one is beyond cute she is imaginative and helps others (sheep) think out side the box. The illustrations are a perfect match to the text. Not good for storytime but every child should read this book before heading to kindergarten....more
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Seriously? Randall De Seve, one of my favorite talented illustrators, has somebody ELSE illustrating this book? Well but Jen Corace, with her wide-eyed characters and clear lines, her excellent use of white space, is a perfect illustrator for a story about a sheep. Lovely colors, too, both the muddy colors and the bright colors. Although once Matilda turns into an orange balloon she kind of looks like a big ball of cheddar cheese, but I don't think that could have been avoided.
What I like: how Matilda the Gray Sheep decides she is an Orange Balloon, and leads the other sheep from making more-obvious comparisons (Matilda is round like a balloon) to less-obvious ones ("orange is the sun, warm as wool.")
What I don't like: "Then the sheep realized--anything was possible." Yeah, yeah, yadda, yadda.
What I don't like: "Then the sheep realized--anything was possible." Yeah, yeah, yadda, yadda.
Apr 18, 2012
Sue Pak
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4 of 5 stars
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This is a fun, cute book about Mathilda the sheep wanting to be an orange balloon in a world where everything is gray and small. When the other sheep denies her, she asks them for the traits of a balloon. They list out traits about the orange balloon, and Mathilda proves that she can do those too.
I think this book sends the message that anything is possible, and the sky is really the limit when it comes to something you want to do or be.
This is a great book to branch off to other colors.
Approp...more
I think this book sends the message that anything is possible, and the sky is really the limit when it comes to something you want to do or be.
This is a great book to branch off to other colors.
Approp...more
I don't know that I really get the meaning behind this story. I think the author is trying to convey that "anything is possible" but that doesn't really connect to the sheep Mathilda for me that well. But, the illustrations were cute and who doesn't love a little lamb?!
What an interesting book. It offers the reader to dream big. It celebrates and explains the color orange.
Theme: Balloons
Additional themes: orange, sheep, imagination
Theme: Balloons
Additional themes: orange, sheep, imagination
I thought this book was a bit too simplistic; it would have been a lot more entertaining for my preschoolers if it at least had a bit of rhyme invovled.
This cracked my little boys up because the story was so poorly written. You think you're going somewhere with the story and then you don't.
Very simple story and clean illustrations...loved the contrast of the drab world on the farm as compared to the brilliance of all things orange.
I liked the lovely, sweet illustrations and the idea that something beautiful can open our eyes to even more possibilities.
This is a cute story...sky is the limit theme
This would be good to use when discussing imagination with children.
This would be good to use when discussing imagination with children.
This book is so precious! An absolutely joyous story told in the simplest of pictures and words.
Cute story showing that you can be anything you want to be.
Loved the artwork! Loved the text! Sweet and silly!
Listen to yourself, imagine and dream big!
Simple but effective.
Nice message!
29 months - You can be anything you want to be even an orange balloon.
Mathilda is so imaginative and clever at freeing us from our inhibiting mindsets that she should be right up there with that little piglet, except she's not nearly as pretentious and would simply shrug and let the piglet have all the limelight. Yup.
"Orange balloon...." said Mathilida. "That's me!"
Apr 10, 2013
Heather
marked it as get-littles
Feb 22, 2013
Igraine
marked it as auf-gar-keinen-fall
Jan 15, 2013
Jen
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