description: Balloons! They are the favourite playthings of Princess Leora. When her father, the king, goes to a neighbouring kingdom to participate in a tournament, he tells Leora to signal him with balloons if anything goes wrong. But the archduke, planning to take over the kingdom, promptly locks the princess in her room and orders all the balloons in the kingdom to be popped. With the help of a wizard and a boy with the only balloon left in the kingdom, Leora is able t plant a balloon tree that blossoms into thousands of balloons. But will it be in time to save the kingdom?
language: English
title: The Balloon Tree --1998 publication.
titlecomplete: The Balloon Tree --1998 publication.
genres: Picture Books, Canada, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Kids, Princesses, Childrens, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 1282
publisher: Scholastic