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When Sally's family visits a hot air balloon field, the loyal black Labrador retriever is tempted by the smell of fresh chicken coming from one of the balloons. She follows the delicious scent to a balloon basket, and-- whoops --the balloon takes flight! Soon she's soaring above the ground, looking out at the tiny people below as they try to bring her back down. Beautiful panoramic scenes and Sally's trademark witty thoughts accompany her latest adventure in the open skies, in a book that is sure to charm dog owners and fans of intrepid Sally.
F&P Level: K
F&P Genre: F More than 200,000 Sally books in print!
Praise for the work of Stephen Huneck
Society of Illustrators Award
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Author Notes
Stephen Huneck is the author of My Dog's Brain, a humorous story that outlines the thought processes of the average dog. Featured are the good and bad hemispheres of a dog's brain fighting for control of such dog habits as drinking water, playing with socks, and taking up room in the bed. Any dog lover will immediately recognize the wisdom found in this book, which is filled with charming illustrations by the author.
Stephen Huneck is a painter and sculptor noted for his meticulous and delightful handcarved pieces. He often incorporates animals, including his own beloved pets, into his art.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (5)
Publisher's Weekly Review
This black Lab's family takes her to a balloon festival in the late Huneck's final Sally adventure. There, she follows the scent of fried chicken right into a balloon gondola, and up and away she goes. Though "Sally feels lucky to be alone with such delicious-smelling chicken," a media frenzy erupts on the ground. Finally, when kids call out the name of her favorite game-"Tug-of-war"-she pulls on the rope and the balloon safely lands. Huneck's stately woodcut prints, featuring self-assured Sally's black and white-flecked silhouette against bold tableaus, lends the book a steadfast charm. Ages 4-8. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Lured by some fried chicken, black Lab Sally hops aboard a hot-air balloon, which of course takes off. The human community's ultimately successful effort to rescue her doesn't engender much suspense, but it's ample excuse for the late Huneck's accomplished woodcuts, whose method of creation he explains in an artist's note. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Illustrated with Huneck's distinctive woodcuts, the seventh Sally story continues the misbehaving fun. When the dog's family takes her to a hot-air-balloon festival, the lure of fried chicken causes her to fall inside one of the balloons. Tugging on a rope to get out does the opposite by releasing the tethers. Up, up, and away goes Sally! Many rescue efforts are made, including sending up a chaise longue with balloons attached, but it's a schoolgirl who yells out Sally's favorite game, tug-of-war, who saves the day. Inventive and appealing, this will be as satisfying to readers as it is to Sally.--Cummins, Julie Copyright 2010 Booklist
New York Review of Books Review
LOOKING at different picture books can feel like taking different kinds of walks in the wood. As you turn the pages the pictures influence the pace at which you read and the attention you give to the images. Some books may feel like being in a forest with tree branches beckoning forward, encouraging you to move at a steady pace down the path. (William Steig is the master of this kind of book, his drawings, easy-going and efficient, so inextricably linked to his words that they lead effortlessly to the conclusion.) Another kind of book may feel more like a great allée of oaks where you are inclined to stop and admire the whorls and indentations of particular trees. In yet another, the experience is more akin to walking through an arboretum, where every turn brings you face to face with an exciting new specimen of bush or flower. Each of the books considered here is about an animal on a journey, but they are illustrated in strongly contrasting styles, and in their approaches they exemplify my three kinds of "walks in the wood." "Herbert," written and illustrated by Robyn Belton, is the true story of a little dog who falls off a boat in frigid New Zealand waters and who miraculously survives for more than 30 hours until he is rescued. Belton wisely uses sketchy yet realistic drawings to move us through the story to reach its dramatic and heartwarming conclusion. The effect of the art is filmic, in that one image points forward to the next, and also emotional. For all the art's looseness, it manages to capture tender details. A drawing of the boy in the story, for example, subtly suggests his anxiety as he watches his father's boat leave the pier with Herbert, his dog, on board. In "Sally's Great Balloon Adventure," Sally can't believe her eyes, and Belle attends a party in "A Giraffe Goes to Paris." Later in the story, an image of the little dog struggling through the huge waves of a storm, described with a few lines and the black dot of a nose emerging from big watercolor washes, conveys his desperate plight. This is a true adventure yarn that is well matched to its straight-ahead illustrations. "I knew you were alive!," from "Herbert." "Sally's Great Balloon Adventure," written and illustrated by Stephen Huneck, has pictures that are as solid and rooted to the page as the wooden blocks from which the artist printed the images. The powerfully simplified and colorful woodcuts tell the story of Sally, the black Lab, following her nose to a picnic lunch sitting in the basket of a hot-air balloon. Whoops! The balloon takes off, and after an anxious ride observed by people on the ground, Sally is saved by responding to shouts of "Tug of war, tug of war!" - she gives a rope a hard pull and, happily, her prompt action gets the balloon back on the ground. The simple story seems almost an excuse for Huneck, who died this year at 61, to give his fans more charming pictures to pore over one by one. The Labrador whose noble profile you have loved in earlier picture books, like Huneck's first, "Sally Goes to the Beach," is now starring in a gripping balloon adventure. She survives the ride, and as tempting as the smell of the chicken is - good dog - she never touches that picnic basket! "A Giraffe Goes to Paris," by Mary Tavener Holmes and John Harris, illustrated by Jon Cannell, is the true story of the exotic present of a giraffe, given by the pasha of Egypt to Charles X of France in 1827. The book brings to life the many complications of getting the animal from Egypt to Paris. The giraffe's escorts take along cows to provide the giraffe with milk, and two antelopes as well, as companions. Then comes a big problem on board the ship to France: "Belle wasn't going to fit!" It's too dangerous for her on deck, but she won't fit below. The Italian captain comes up with an idea: "He cut a hole in the deck, so Belle's long, graceful neck could poke out." (He also gives her an umbrella, to protect her from sun and rain.) The story takes us on the triumphant tour through France to Paris, with many astounded citizens along the way. With so much historical detail to work with, Cannell matches its complexity with a mélange of stylishly naive drawings, reproductions of 19th-century paintings and maps, and photographs of objects and sculpture. The effect is graphically hip with a lot of information to stop and consider, a veritable arboretum of images, but at some cost to the story's continuity. To give the events a connecting thread, the authors have invented a character, Atir, who looks after Belle and tells the story, but Atir's voice gets a bit lost in the cacophony of the jazzy graphics. This is very much a visual book, however, and a patient, historically minded young reader should find it a satisfying adventure. Jim McMullan's most recent book with his wife, Kate, is "I'm Bad!" Their book "I'm Big!" will be published this fall.
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2-Lured by the smell of fried chicken, Sally hops into the gondola of a hot-air balloon at a balloon festival, and the pull of a rope sets her aloft. One element of Huneck's picture-book artistry is to capture every step, emotion, thought, and intuition motivating the pup and the humans around her. Huneck shows the wafting succulent smells of the chicken, the natural response of Sally to tug on the rope to get out, and her fearlessness at being off the ground, given the fine company of fried chicken. He endows Sally with dignity and humility. From below everyone calls her name and viewers see the name delightfully etched over and over across the field. Readers will chuckle at the many ideas onlookers have to get the animal down and applaud the young girl who cleverly finds a way to land the balloon. In the final woodcut, Sally is lying down, resting, eyes closed, with three outstretched hands petting her, welcoming her back home. Readers of all ages will welcome her, too.-Sara Lissa Paulson, American Sign Language and English Lower School PS 347, New York City (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
