Books with title The Noon Balloon

THE STORY OF THE HUMAN JOURNEY TO SPACELong before anyone had designed a rocket, the Montgolfier brothers were making hot air balloons. In October 1783, they became the first people to experience controlled flight. Balloon to the Moon starts there and leads to Neil Armstrong's 'small step' and beyond. But why stop there? Learn about the great innovations of the past, then get ready for BLAST OFF into an unknown but exciting future.

The Green Balloon is a tender story about the power of healing. After Simon, age 4, was involved in an accident on a horse farm on November 14, 2015, he received treatment and spent six nights in an Intensive Care Unit at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health in Indianapolis, Indiana. His parents healed, too. The Green Balloon is a book designed for young children who have experienced trauma. Readers will follow a child's journey as he learns to cope with his own trauma. Sensitive, empowering, and beautifully illustrated, the book model therapeutic coping responses - breathe in, breathe out - and provides children with tools they may use to deal with their own trauma. The Green Balloon reinforces messages of kindness, compassion, sensitivity, and self-awareness.

“Billy was a foil balloon that was born in a grocery store. He was a shiny silver balloon with a special message that said I Love You in bright red letters.” Billy the Balloon is a story that will assure, inspire, and give the reader hope that everything will be OK because everything happens for a purpose. It is story about how a farmer named Fred, his special needs grandson, JP, and Sally, a young city girl, are wondrously brought together for a benefit party by a balloon called Billy.

The Magic Balloon is about Arabella, a small girl adapting to loneliness and the prospect of going to boarding school. Her adventure with her new friends assists her to overcome her fears.A story set in rural Australia about a young girl who faces challenges in a move from the city to the country and loneliness. Her adventure of making some new friends and her apprehension of a new school are difficulties faced by children every day. I do hope this story will delight the young reader.

“The Balloon-Hoax” is a well-known short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). First published in 1844, the tale is an account of a lighter-than-air balloon trip across the Atlantic Ocean. This edition also contains a long note on Poe’s life and work written by French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) in 1852. The essay was translated in English by Henry Curwen (1845-1892) in 1873.

This fast pacing world is inhabited by humans - people with flesh and blood - who are lost in their own miseries and joys. We are Humans, who have no time to see the trauma and troubles of those around. The question that arises now is - if we won't help each other then who will help us?Imagine that help comes walking towards you! She comes to you with a sweet smile and hope, accompanied with bright, colourful and vibrant balloons. She walks into your life and helps you find your answers.How would you feel, when in the face of dilemma, someone comes around and tells you what you want to hear? What if this stranger just appears out of nowhere to help you? The Balloon Girl is a collection of short stories of hope, love, care, affection, trust, belief and faith. Stories about people and a girl who walks in to clear up the clouds of miseries. She is the one who spreads smiles, happiness, peace and hope around. She believes life would become easier for all, if we would stretch our hand and touch other's life with our little care, our own little magic.