hot air balloons

The adventures of Harriet Shaw and her niece and nephew, Rebecca and William, as they set out on a round-the-world balloon race.

Simple text and photographs describe how hot air balloons work.

Lured into a hot air balloon by the smell of fried chicken, Sally the black labrador retriever inadvertently goes for a ride all by herself.

Traces the history of hot air balloons since the late eighteenth century, looks at the parts of the balloon, and examines the uses for hot air balloons.

Megan goes for a ride in a hot-air balloon and learns all the details of how one is operated.

Henry Bear plans to search for his father, who left a park in Henry's care when he went off in a hot air balloon.

Three weeks after leaving San Francisco in a balloon to fly across the Pacific, Professor Sherman is picked up in the Atlantic clinging to wreckage.

Describes the history of ballooning from its origins in eighteenth-century France to today.

Benny wants adventure and finds it as he and the other Alden children help uncover the plan of those who would prevent ballooning from coming to Lloyd's Landing.

Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her win it.