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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2012 | Preschool to Grade 4
Gr 2–3—Reminiscent of the classic French film The Red Balloon (1956), this charming picture book with graphic-novel elements provides a visual tour of the young hero's teeming neighborhood in New York City. On laundry day, a bright red length of fabric drifts from a clothesline strung between the tenements, landing gently around the shoulders of a shoeshine boy. Business is slow, so he wraps the cloth around his neck and goes on a quest to find its owner. Accompanied by his orange striped cat, he travels from...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on April 1, 2012
The city street below the tenements bustles with vendors and shoppers, but no one has time for the winsome shoeshine boy. Spotting a scarlet piece of cloth drifting from above, he sets out to find its owner, ascending façades from barrel to drainpipe, fire escape to balcony. Along the way he meets, helps, and is advised by many of the buildings' tenants -- a Chinese laundress who gives him a mooncake; the Polish mother of an inconsolable baby; an organ grinder;...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
A shoeshine boy scales the façades of the tenements, looking for the owner of a scarf. He meets, helps, and is advised by...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
