#ira blount

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Public Domain Art

Sources

1. Revival Banner (Seven-headed Beast Rev. 12)

2. Plic en Ploc by Monogrammist G.J.

3. The Madame B Album by Marie-Blanche Hennelle Fournier

4. Cat and Dragonfly Silhouette by Ira Blount

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Sampler by Ira Blount, 1994, in the collection of the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, Washington, DC

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Block flower quilt 20th century

Ira Blount

Anacostia Community Museum

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Cat and Dragonfly Paper Cutting by Ira Blount. Best described as a multi-talented artisan Ira Blount's work spans everything from basket weaving to calligraphy. He died this year at the good old age of 101 and his obituary is amazing. I aspire to be as active through out life as this man was. · Read his obituary here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx%3fn=ira-blount&pid=196277663 · · See the original image here: https://anacostia.si.edu/collection/object/acm_2011.0004.0109 · · · #irablount #catsofinstagram #cat #blackcat #dragonfly #papercrafts #basketweaving #artisan #artist #memphis #washingtondc #calligraphy #longlife #centenarian #africanamerican #blackmen #community #art #tuskegee #craft #anacostia #smithsonianmuseum https://www.instagram.com/p/CJbiG2YHqeg/?igshid=quyq4f28bjhh

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Origami Kimono Mounted on Red Paper Ira Blount 2007 https://t.co/HtnlwlMrDT https://www.youtube.com/c/lifesang

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Gift of Ira Blount

Peace of mind comes

to me through making 

things with my hands

An added bonus comes

if my efforts inspire 

other to try the creative

process. 

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Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova

Author: Laurel Snyder

Illustrator: Julie Morstad

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Publication Year: 2015

Awards: 

ALA Notable Children’s Book

Orbis Pictus Award 

Bank Street CBC Best Children’s Book of the Year

IRA Children’s Choices Reading List 

Starred Review - School Library Journal 

Brief Summary: One night, her mother takes her to the ballet, and everything is changed--Anna finds a beauty inside herself that she cannot contain. So begins the journey of a girl who will one day grow up to be the most famous prima ballerina of all time, and who will inspire legions of dancers after her: the brave, the generous, the transcendently gifted Anna Pavlova.

Ideas for using this book in classroom or library: Women’s History Month

Special Features Include: Bibliographical References, Author’s Note

Where I Accessed The Book: Blount County Public Library (JB PAVLOVA)

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[John K. Ross] Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Since 2009, Tennessee officials have levied nearly $100,000 in fines on African-style hair braiders—not for any health or sanitation violations but simply for operating without a license. The license, which takes 300 hours to obtain, creates real hardship for braiders and doesn't much benefit the public, so it's welcome news that a bill to repeal it is advancing in the Legislature. IJ Legislative Analyst Nick Sibilla has the story at Forbes.com.

Man is convicted in 2004, sentenced to life for pair of Woodbine, N.J. robberies where victims were tied up, threatened. Third Circuit: New trial or set him free; his attorney rendered ineffective counsel by failing to question detectives' handling of "the one piece of tangible evidence" tying the man to the crime (a cigarette butt purportedly found at one of the crime scenes that could actually have come from his home).

Under South Carolina's "Disturbing Schools Law" and "Disorderly Conduct Law," kids as young as 7 have been arrested for cursing, refusing to follow directions, or getting into minor scuffles. So the kids challenge the law. Fourth Circuit: And their lawsuit should be allowed to go forward.

On personal blog, prosecutor writes a series of posts on litigious political activist with a criminal past; the activist complains to the prosecutor's superiors; the posts are not altered. A still-unidentified hoax caller then triggers a SWAT raid of the prosecutor's home. District court: The activist cannot sue the prosecutor for seeking to have him investigated for playing a role in the hoax. Fourth Circuit: That's so.

Allegation: Manassas City, Va. detective (an alleged child molester) compels 17-year-old to masturbate in front of armed officers so as to compare his erect penis with illicit images sent to the teen's 15-year-old girlfriend. District court: Qualified immunity. Fourth Circuit (2017, over a dissent): Reversed. The detective violated the teen's Fourth Amendment right of privacy and should have known it. Fourth Circuit (2018, on dueling petitions for rehearing, also over a dissent): So actually, we vacate rather than reverse the district court on that point. Also, it's possible the detective's actions amounted to creating child porn, for which the 17-year-old can seek recompense (a claim previously dismissed). (We discussed the 2017 ruling on the podcast.)

In areas zoned for single-family living, Salisbury, Md. forbids more than two unrelated persons from living together. Officials: So landlord renting house to two brothers and a friend is breaking the law. District court: The ordinance is unconstitutionally vague. Fourth Circuit (2016): Is it? District court: It's not. Fourth Circuit (2018): The renters have moved out; case is moot.

Texas law aimed at curtailing so-called "sanctuary cities" (wherein local officials limit their cooperation with federal immigration authorities) is challenged on a host of constitutional theories; district court enters preliminary injunction. Fifth Circuit: Which we now vacate; the law is constitutional, except for the provision that prohibits elected officials from "endorsing" sanctuary policies, which violates the First Amendment.

In 2016, the Department of Labor enacted the "Fiduciary Rule," unsettling decades of practice by broadly reinterpreting the term "investment advice fiduciary" to subject hundreds of thousands of financial service providers in the market for ERISA plans and IRAs to stringent regulation. Fifth Circuit (over a dissent): Which they had no authority to do; the Fiduciary Rule is vacated.

Blount County, Tenn. detective and prosecutor withhold exculpatory evidence in 2002 murder trial, so man's conviction is vacated in 2011. He's acquitted on retrial in 2015. Was the man's deadline to sue for prosecutorial misconduct a year after the vacatur or a year after the acquittal? The latter, says the Sixth Circuit, so his suit should not have been dismissed.

Lima, Ohio police take sexagenarian drunk driving suspect to ground; one officer knees him repeatedly, fracturing a rib, when he doesn't produce his hands for cuffing (allegedly because they're pinned underneath him). Sixth Circuit: The knees were excessive force, but our precedent puts officers on notice not to beat people (who might be offering slight resistance) only in booking rooms—this was a traffic stop. The man can't sue.

Former employee of red light camera company that bribed Chicago official (who is now serving 10 years) turns informant, seeks sizable cut of the $20 mil the company paid to settle the city's suit. Seventh Circuit: The chutzpah!

When a reasonable person orders a 12-oz. iced coffee, do they expect a full 12 oz. of coffee—or some coffee and some ice in a 12-oz. cup? Los Angeles man: The former. Starbucks is defrauding its customers. Ninth Circuit: Not so.

Suspect, already searched, is unarmed, sitting compliantly on the bumper of a squad car, and being watched over by an armed King County, Wash. officer. Nonetheless, another officer allegedly points a gun at the suspect's head and threatens to kill him. Is that so wrong? It's wrong, says the Ninth Circuit. So wrong? Not so wrong that every reasonable officer would have understood it was unconstitutional. Qualified immunity.

Civil Procedure Exam Question: California Highway Patrolman punches septuagenarian in the stomach during a traffic stop, and jury returns a special verdict finding excessive force. Officer isn't as quick with his notice of appeal as he is with his fists, waiting 199 days to file. But the court's even slower, waiting 227 days to approve and enter judgment on the special verdict. Is the notice of appeal timely? Professor Ninth Circuit says "No"; judgment was "constructively" entered after 150 days.

Allegation: After completing his sentence, man spends eight years in Los Angeles County jail awaiting word on whether he's to be deemed too dangerous to release. For more than six of those years, he's housed with criminal convicts, wearing a red jumpsuit that marks him as a sex offender, for which another inmate attacks him with a razor. Ninth Circuit: He can sue the then-sheriff (who is facing prison time for unrelated matters).

Do the Articles of Confederation give rise to employment discrimination claims? They do not, says the Tenth Circuit.

Eleventh Circuit: Wearing a mask in public is illegal in Georgia (with exceptions for Halloween, among other things), a measure meant to protect against "terrorization by masked vigilantes." So an allegedly peaceful protester arrested for wearing a Guy Fawkes mask can't sue Atlanta police. Dissent: That's not the law; wearing a mask in public is legal unless the wearer intends to intimidate people; "non-threatening political mask wearing" doesn't meet that standard.

In a blog post, doctor suggests another doctor's method for treating Alzheimer's and other ailments (by injecting a drug used to treat arthritis along patients' spines) is quackery. Libel? Eleventh Circuit (2017): No, the purported quack's suit is a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. Eleventh Circuit (2018): And he can pay the blogger's legal bills—$260k.

Long one of the most important and vigorously enforced provisions in the Constitution, the Contract Clause was meant to bar states from retroactively altering contracts, which, apart from the unfairness of it, creates uncertainty in commerce and credit markets because businesses can't know if their agreements will be honored. But the Clause was largely read out of the Constitution in the 20th century, and now state legislators have relatively free rein to rewrite private contracts as they see fit. On Monday, however, the Supreme Court will consider a Contract Clause case for the first time in a generation, presenting the opportunity to revive this crucial property rights safeguard. Click here to read an IJ amicus brief, written on behalf of Vanderbilt prof James W. Ely, urging the Court to embrace the original meaning of the Clause.

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Hyperallergic: Art Movements

One of 25 landscape drawings recently reattributed to Thomas Gainsborough (courtesy Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2017)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Subscribe to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter.

A federal judge ordered Glafira Rosales to pay $81 million in restitution to the victims of the Knoedler Gallery art forgery. The art dealer — the only person who was detained in connection with the scandal — pled guilty to charges of wire fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion in 2013.

Art investigator Arthur Brand stated that he is “100 percent sure” that the works stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 are in Ireland. “We have had talks with … former members of the IRA — and after a few Guinnesses, after a few talks — you can see in their eyes that they know more,” Brand told CBS News. The Museum dismissed Brand’s claims, stating that his leads are “not new.”

An album of 25 landscape drawings in the Royal Collection were re-attributed to Thomas Gainsborough after scholar Lindsay Stainton confirmed that one of the drawings is a squared-up study of the artist’s 1748 painting, “Cornard Wood.”

Over 500 individuals and organizations backed “Our Shared European Future,” a list of post-Brexit recommendations published by the British Council. The document, which is endorsed by museums including the Tate, British Museum, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, includes recommendations on travel and working rights.

A federal appeals court in California revived a Holocaust-related lawsuit seeking a Camille Pissarro painting from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation in Madrid.

The Museum Kunstpalast in Dusseldorf pulled a painting by Andreas Achenbach from display following an ownership claim filed by the heirs of Jewish art dealer Max Stern.

The Maurice Sendak Foundation discovered an unpublished and fully illustrated book by the author entitled Presto and Zesto in Limboland. The manuscript was co-authored with Sendak’s regular collaborator Arthur Yorinks.

Julia Venske and Gregor Spänle, “Autoeater” (2017) (courtesy Midtown Alliance, Atlanta)

Atlanta’s Midtown Alliance unveiled “Autoeater,” a new public sculpture by Julia Venske and Gregor Spänle.

According to The New York Post, ArtInfo published articles under fictional bylines after outsourcing editorial work to India.

South African filmmaker Sibahle Nkumbi was shoved down a flight of stairs by the husband of an Airbnb host in Amsterdam in what was allegedly a racially motivated attack. Nkumbi’s unnamed assailant has been charged with attempted manslaughter according to Huffington Post South Africa.

A report commissioned by the board of San Francisco’s Mexican Museum concluded that only 83 of the 2,000 objects in its collection could be authenticated and classed as “museum quality.”

Charles Saatchi began a weekly column at The Telegraph.

Visitors who wish to attend David Choe‘s newest installation, The Choe Show, will be selected for tickets only after completing an online application form comprised of personal questions. The artist’s mural on the corner of Houston Street and Bowery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side was defaced multiple times and eventually whitewashed last month. In one instance, an unknown person/persons scrawled “rapist,” a reference to a 2014 podcast in which Choe claimed to have sexually assaulted a masseuse, an event he later described as a fabrication.

Jay Z unveiled the music video for “4:44,” the title track on his new eponymous album. The video is directed by artist Arthur Jafa and his production partner, Elissa Blount-Moorhead.

Four suspects were arrested in connection with the theft of the “Big Maple Leaf.” The 221-pound Canadian gold coin was stolen from the Bode museum in March.

IKEA will release its first 3D printed collection, OMEDELBAR, next year.

Transactions

Yayoi Kusama, “All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins” (2016), wood, mirror, plastic, acrylic, LED (courtesy YAYOI KUSAMA Inc., Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / Singapore and Victoria Miro, London. Photo by Thierry Bal, © Yayoi Kusama)

The Dallas Museum of Art acquired one of Yayoi Kusama’s mirror infinity rooms, “All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins” (2016).

The Castello di Rivoli absorbed the $570 million collection of the Fondazine Francesco Federico Cerruti as part of a partnership deal.

The Dia Art Foundation acquired works by Lee Ufan and Kishio Suga.

Chris Ofili donated his 2003 reimagining of the Union Jack flag, “Union Black,” to Tate Britain.

The Ringling acquired a portrait by Guercino (1591–1666).

Lisa and Steven Tananbaum donated $1 million to the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. The gift will endow a curatorial position in modern and contemporary art.

Josiah Wedgwood’s “First Day’s Vase” will return to the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery following a successful £482,500 (~ $624,500) fundraising campaign.

A letter by Jane Austen in which the author ridicules a book by one of her contemporaries sold for $209,000 at Sotheby’s.

The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) received a grant from Bank of America for the restoration of George Segal’s sculpture “Abraham’s Farewell to Ishmael.”

The Ateneum Art Museum acquired sculptures by Heikki W. Virolainen, Helena Pylkkänen, and Marjo Lahtinen.

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis received a $25,000 grant from the PNC Foundation to support a new fellowship program to promote diversity and equity at the museum.

The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg acquired a rare depiction of pre-Revolutionary Charleston, South Carolina. The 1774 engraving is by Samuel Smith after a painting by Thomas Leitch.

“A View of CHARLES-TOWN, the Capital of SOUTH CAROLINA,” engraved by Samuel Smith after Thomas Leitch, hand-colored line engraving, London, England, June 3, 1776, museum Purchase, The Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections Fund (photo courtesy the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg)

Transitions

William D. Adams, the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and Michael S. McPherson, outgoing president of the Spencer Foundation, were appointed senior fellows at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Author and art critic Michael Bonesteel cited a “toxic environment” as the reason for his resignation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Bonesteel, an adjunct professor, had taught at the school for 14 years.

Claude Grunitzky was appointed president of the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation.

Brian Wilk and Dan Poteet were appointed chair and vice chair of the Maine College of Art’s board of trustees, respectively.

Elizabeth Chodos was appointed director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Regina Gouger Miller Gallery.

Emma Enderby was appointed curator at The Shed.

Mary Statzer was appointed curator of prints and photographs at the University of New Mexico Art Museum.

Nanne Dekking will succeed Willem van Roijen as chair of the European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF).

Christie’s appointed Giovanna Bertazzoni and Adrien Meyer as co-chairs of its Impressionist and modern art department.

Phillips promoted Jean-Paul Engelen to deputy chairman of the Americas.

New York’s Washburn Gallery relocated to Chelsea. The gallery’s owner, Joan Washburn, cited the security presence around Trump Tower as the reason for the move.

Queer|Art established the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant.

The Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon, abruptly closed.

The Video Game Art Gallery will open in Chicago next month.

Accolades

The Library of Congress will posthumously award Denis Johnson its annual Prize for American Fiction.

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation announced the recipients of its 2017 Artist as Activist fellowship.

Obituaries

Pierrette Bloch, “Sans titre / Untitled” (1976), ink on paper, 79.5 x 58 cm (© Pierrette Bloch. Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne, Paris, St Moritz. Photo by Adam Rzepka)

Tom Black (unconfirmed–2017), founder of T.E. Black Studio.

Pierrette Bloch (1928–2017), artist.

Ilya Glazunov (1930–2017), painter. Founder and rector of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.

Irina Ratushinskaya (1954–2017), poet and human rights activist.

Lala Rukh (1948–2017), artist and activist. Founding member of the Women’s Action Forum.

Richard Gilbert Scott (1923–2017), architect. Son of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

Kenneth Silverman (1936–2017), author. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Life and Times of Cotton Mather.

Jon Underwood (1972–2017), founder of the Death Cafe movement.

Liu Xiaobo (1955–2017), Chinese dissident, activist, and Nobel Peace laureate.

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Uncle Andy’s

Author: James Warhola

Illustrator:James Warhola

Publisher: Putnam

Publication Year: 2003

Awards: 

CCBC Choices

Capitol Choices Noteworthy Book for Children

IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award 

Starred Review - Kirkus

Brief Summary:

Uncle Andy's offers an exciting and unique perspective on one of the most influential artists of our time. Through James' eyes, we see the things that made his family visits memorable-including the wonderful disarray of Andy's house, waking up surrounded by important art and incredible collected objects, trying on Andy's wigs, sharing the run of Andy's house with his twenty-five cats (all named Sam), and getting art supplies from Andy as a goodbye present. James was lucky enough to learn about art from an innovative master and he shows how these visits with Uncle Andy taught him about the creative process and inspired him to become an artist

Ideas for using this book in classroom or library: Art Display

Special Features Include: Further Biographical Informatoin

Where I Accessed The Book: Blount County Public Library (JB WARHOL)

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Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World

Author: Cynthia Chin-Lee

Illustrator: Megan Halsey, Sean Addy

Publisher: Charlesbridge

Publication Year: 2005

Awards:

Amelia Bloomer List 

CCBC Choices

IRA Children’s Choices Reading List 

NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book

Starred Review: Booklist, Kirkus

Brief Summary: Twenty-six amazing women; twenty-six amazing stories. From Amelia Earhart, pilot and adventurer, to Zora Neal Hurston, writer and anthropologist, learn about the hardships and triumphs that inspired each woman to change the world around her. Detailed collages and illustrations draw from various events in the women's lives

Ideas for using this book in classroom or library: Women’s History Month, Change the World/Make a Difference

Special Features Include: Bibliographical References

Where I Accessed The Book: Blount County Public Library (J920.72 CHI)

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Eight Days Gone

Author: Linda McReynolds

Illustrator: Ryan O’Rourke

Publisher: Charlesbridge

Publication Year: 2012

Awards:

NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book

IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award

Washington State Towner Award Nominee

Starred Review: 

Brief Summary: Snappy verse and retro art recount Apollo 11's historic, eight-day mission to the moon in 1969. Young readers learn the basics about the gear, equipment, and spaceship used by the astronauts, as well as the history of NASA's moon mission.

Ideas for using this book in classroom or library: Space/Exploration Display, STEM Program

Special Features Include: Bibliographical References, Author’s Note

Where I Accessed The Book: Blount County Public Library (J629.45 MCR)

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Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay

Author: Susan Hood

Illustrator: Sally Wern Comport

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Publication Year: 2016

Awards: 

Bank Street CBC Best Children’s Book of the Year

IRA Notable Book for A Global Society

CSMCL Best Multicultural Book

Brief Summary: Ada Ríos grew up in Cateura, a small town in Paraguay built on a landfill. She dreamed of playing the violin, but with little money for anything but the bare essentials, it was never an option...until a music teacher named Favio Chávez arrived. He wanted to give the children of Cateura something special, so he made them instruments out of materials found in the trash. It was a crazy idea, but one that would leave Ada--and her town--forever changed. Now, the Recycled Orchestra plays venues around the world, spreading their message of hope and innovation

Ideas for using this book in classroom or library: Women’s History Month, Latinx heritage, Music/Musicians display

Special Features Include: Author’s Note

Where I Accessed The Book: Blount County Public Library (J784.206 HOOD)

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Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence

Author: Gretchen Woelfle

Illustrator: Alix Delinois

Publisher: Carolrhoda Books

Publication Year: 2014

Awards: 

Starred Review: Publisher’s Weekly

Capitol Choices Noteworthy Book for Children

IRA Children’s Choices Reading List

Brief Summary: Everybody knows about the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the founders weren't the only ones who believed that everyone had a right to freedom. Mumbet, a Massachusetts slave, believed it too. She longed to be free, but how? Would anyone help her in her fight for freedom? Could she win against her owner, the richest man in town? Mumbet was determined to try.

Ideas for using this book in classroom or library: Women’s History Month, Black History Month

Special Features Include: Bibliographical References

Where I Accessed The Book: Blount County Public Library (J306.3 WOE)

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Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla

Author: Katherine Applegate

Illustrator: G. Brian Karas

Publisher: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Publication Year: 2014

Awards: 

CCBC Choices

Bank Street CBC Best Children’s Book of the Year 

IRA Teachers’ Choices Reading List 

NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book

Brief Summary: Captured as a baby, Ivan was brought to a Tacoma, Washington, mall to attract shoppers. Gradually, public pressure built until a better way of life for Ivan was found at Zoo Atlanta. From the Congo to America, and from a local business attraction to a national symbol of animal welfare, Ivan the Shopping Mall Gorilla traveled an astonishing distance in miles and in impact.

Ideas for using this book in classroom or library: Animal Stories display

Special Features Include: Bibliographical References, Photographs

Where I Accessed The Book: Blount County Public Library (J599.884 APP)

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Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride

Author: Marjorie Priceman

Illustrator: Marjorie Pricemand

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Publication Year: 2005

Awards: 

ALA Notable Children’s Book

Caldecott Honor

CCBC Choices 

IRA Children’s Choices Reading List 

Brief Summary: The first "manned" hot-air balloon is about to take off! But what are those noises coming from the basket? Based on the (POSSIBLY) true report of a day in 1783, this is the story of (PERHAPS) the bravest collection of flyers the world has ever seen, as (SORT OF) told to Marjorie Priceman.

Ideas for using this book in classroom or library: STEM program

Special Features Include: Bibliographical References

Where I Accessed The Book: Blount County Public Library (EASY PRICEMAN)