From balloon-request@cvs.rochester.edu  Mon Feb  5 21:56:11 1996
	id AA15432; Mon, 5 Feb 96 21:51:21 EST
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 20:51:06 -0600
Message-Id: <199602060251.UAA34810@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu>
To: balloon@cvs.rochester.edu
From: Mark Balzer <m-balzer@students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Balloons in books and other strange places

>... a book called "Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm"  by Jerdine Nolen and
>Mark Buehner.  It's about a guy who "grows" balloons as his crop.  they
>come out as faces, animals and all kind of neat things...

Freda, thanks for sharing this info.  I just went out and borrowed this
book from my local library and have to report that it is delightful!  The
whole concept of what Harvey Potter does is ingenious, the text is written
in pure "tall-tale" style, the illustrations are fabulous with colors that
leap off the page, and the main character not only makes balloons, he
dances!!! (Harvey's my kinda guy...).

Here is more info on this $15 hard cover book:

    AUTHOR:     Harold, Jerdine Nolen
    TITLE:      Harvey Potter's balloon farm / Jerdine Nolen ; (illustrated
                   by) Mark Buehner.
                Never a worm this long.
    EDITION:    1st ed.
    PUBL.:      New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books,
    FORMAT:     1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
    DATE:       1994
    OTHER NAME: Buehner, Mark ill.

    SUBJECT:    Tall tales.
                Balloons--Fiction.
                Farm life--Fiction.

    ISBN:       0688078877 :
                0688078885 (lib. bdg.)
    LANGUAGE:   ENGLISH
    SUMMARY:    A child ventures out in the middle of the night to see how
                   Harvey Potter grows his wonderful balloons.
    NOTES:      "Originally published "Never a worm this long"
                   by Heath Reading, D.C. Heath & Co."--verso t.p.


When I went to get it at the library, I looked up its shelf location on the
computer and then asked a librarian "Where is the `picture book' section?"

She gave me a puzzled look and replied "You mean for little kids?"

:-)

Mark  "help me, I'm a little kid trapped in a big kid's body" Balzer


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