Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards))
Sketches from the Author(Click on Images to Enlarge)Sometimes I have to play with pictures to find  the words, so I'll make a collage to get warmed up.My writing looks  like lists and doodles until the very end when I write it out on the computer.An early sketch in Tony Sarg's studio where they  puppeteers are figuring out how to make the inflatable animals.This was the perfect place to have a spread that  had to be turned, just like the "upside down marionettes" rising up.In a  nonfiction book even the smallest detail needs to be accurate and I found this wonderful reference for a  1920's New York City bus stop sign that I used inBalloons Over Broadway.