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The Great Balloon Hullaballoo

The illustrations are fun, and the colors are bright and rich.  The text is written with good rhythm and rhyme, telling the story of a young squirrel whose mother sends him off with a shopping list, insisting that the most important item on the list is cheese, as she’s planning to make pizza for dinner.  When Simon Squirrel and his friends see the moon, they declare that everyone knows it’s made of cheese, so they borrow a hot air balloon to go fetch some, but a comet blows them off course, so they end up shopping for the other items on their list at various planets.  After a meteor shower punctures their balloon they head home, but realize they still forgot the cheese.  Though it lacks enough purpose or cohesion to rate a recommendation, it’s silly and fun and kids would enjoy it.