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Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm

Name: Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm
ISBN: 9780688158453

Paperback – Picture Book, April 23, 1998

Jerdine Nolen

HarperCollins · Paperback · April 23, 1998

Reading lane: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Harvey Potter was a very strange fellow indeed.

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Why This Clicks

Moonlit Make-Believe

A balloon-growing farm makes room for the kind of magic that feels almost believable.

Come here for

A farmer whose crop floats instead of growing in rows
A child’s glimpse of a secret under the full moon

Expect

Inventive, gentle fantasy told by a curious girl
A little magic kept close

Book Details

Authors: Jerdine Nolen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: April 23, 1998
Format: Paperback
Theme: Fairy Tales & Folklore · Folktale Retellings
Reading lane: Fairy Tales & Folklore

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Farm Animal Stories
Cow Stories
US: African American Stories
Fairy Tale Collections

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Fairy Tales & Folklore
Folktale Retellings
Farm & Ranch Life
Magic & Fantasy

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Harvey Potter was a very strange fellow indeed. He was a farmer but not like any farmer you've ever met. He didn't grow corn, okra, or tomatoes. Harvey Potter grew balloons. No one knew exactly how he did it, but with the help of the light of a full moon, one friendly child catches a peek of just how Harvey Potter does it. And keeps some magic for herself. "This is the best sort of fantasy imaginative, inventive, and believable. Harvey Potter is a wonder he's the owner of a genuine U.S. Government Inspected Balloon farm. And Nolen's tale about this man, narrated by the African-American girl who learns balloon-farming magic from him, is equally wondrous.... This title should sail onto every library shelf. May Nolen grow a bumper crop of books." School Library Journal. "Downright glorious." Publishers Weekly (starred review).