Miriam RothBesprekingen

A very adorable story, my niece loved it when I read it to her. It will leave a smile on your face. I am going to try and use it to teach colors to my niece.

A cute story with nice illustrations about five kids playing with five different colored balloons. I liked how the story rhymed, and that the only color was the color of the balloons in the illustrations. A quick read kids are sure to enjoy.

A Tale of Five Balloons is beautifully illustrated. The rhyming text would be fun to read to a child. That said, I was caught off-guard by the message of the story. In fact it is a story about loss.
The story is about several children each of whom has a balloon of a different color. It starts out when the first child's balloon breaks and the parent says "we'll get you another one." After that, however, as each child's balloon breaks, the message was less encouraging. "All balloons pop in the end...too bad." This is repeated along with the message 'you can say goodbye.' While I understand that such a lesson is sometimes necessary to teach, it is a difficult one especially for a very young child (the audience for which I assume this is intended).
The story ends with the children saying goodbye to the last balloon as it flies away (so at least one was not broken). Depending upon one's reason for wanting or needing such a story, I would only recommend this with that caveat.

Ms. Roth does an excellent job of teaching children to deal with the disappointment of loss -- a given throughout the course of our lives. The illustrator crafted excellent black and white children, while the balloons are in color which, of cours, helps them to stand out as the focus of the book. This rhyming book is excellent an I highly recommend it for young children. The ending reminds me of a mindfulness meditation I personally practie. (Great stuff!) Many thanks to LibraryTHing for allowing me to review this book pre-release. Janice M. Frum

This is a cute story. My only problem was that I received a PDF copy of the story and it only showed one page at a time, so I had to constantly go back and forth between pages to get the whole picture and story.

A simple, rhyming story about five children who are gifted five different colored balloons. The balloons are in color but the children are drawn with simple black lines. As with all balloons, the children lose each balloon through popping, bursting, and floating away. A tale shared by every child who has owned a balloon.