Books with title The Noon Balloon

While her father is away, Princess Leora becomes vulnerable to her jealous uncle, who attempts to destroy the princess’s magic signal balloons that are protecting her from harm.“Don’t worry,” said Princess Leora’s father just before he left for the tournament. “If anything goes wrong, release a bunch of balloons from the castle tower. Wherever I am, I will see them and come home right away.” Now, something is wrong—very wrong. Princess Leora’s grumpy uncle, the Archduke, wants to be king, and the very first thing he does is pop every balloon in the kingdom. Princess Leora is afraid, but she doesn't give up. If she can find just one whole balloon, the kingdom will be saved! 100 full-color illustrations

Henry's balloon slips from his hand and drifts into the sky... The balloon drifts up and up to the balloon cloud, a special cloud in the sky where all the lost balloons go. When Henry was little, his brother Sam died and Henry still misses him. Do you think Sam would like to play in the balloon cloud? asks Henry. Yes, Sam loved balloons replies his mother. Henry and his friends embark on a journey to find the balloon cloud. A touching story with beautiful illustrations, The Balloon Cloud is a story about loss, letting go and remembering those who are no longer with us.

"The Balloon-Hoax" is the title used in collections and anthologies of a newspaper article written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844. Originally presented as a true story, it detailed European Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days in a gas balloon. It was later revealed as a hoax and the story was retracted two days later. The story now known as "The Balloon-Hoax" was first printed in The Sun newspaper in New York. The article provided a detailed and highly plausible account of a lighter-than-air balloon trip by famous European balloonist Monck Mason across the Atlantic Ocean taking 75 hours, along with a diagram and specifications of the craft. Poe may have been inspired, at least in part, by a prior journalistic hoax known as the "Great Moon Hoax", published in the same newspaper in 1835. One of the suspected writers of that hoax, Richard Adams Locke, was Poe's editor at the time "The Balloon-Hoax" was published. Poe had complained for a decade that the paper's Great Moon Hoax had plagiarized (by way of Locke) the basic idea from The Unparalleled Adventure Of One Hans Pfaall, one of Poe's less successful stories which also involved similar inhabitants on the moon. Poe felt The Sun had made tremendous profits from his story without giving him a cent. (Poe's anger at The Sun paper is chronicled in the 2008 book "The Sun and the Moon" by Matthew Goodman.)

In the story, Sally comes up on a beautiful balloon hanging in a store window. Her mom buys it for her and she names him Blue. They become best friends and in the end it tells how she loses him and how he makes the long journey back home to her. I would like to dedicate this book to my youngest child of six children, Briley, who inspired me to make up this short story to tell her at the age of two and later I decided to write this book.

Stories of the First WorldWar from the bestselling Terry Deary, author of the hugely successful HorribleHistories. November 1916 - the war on the Home Front. Millie is being told offfor breaching the blackout when a Zeppelin airship crashes over Essex. Millie,the local constable and an elderly helper must round up the armed German crewbefore they escape. Meanwhile the 'invaders' are worrying about accidentallysetting fire to the houses they were bombing! A strange but true tale of theHome Front for 7+ from the master historical storyteller.