Barney Malloon's Balloon

Barney Malloon’s Balloon is a humorous fantasy about a balloonist who wants only clouds for company.  Birds and bees looking for free rides make him very cross until they come to his rescue when his balloon is stolen.  Several repeating language patterns tell the story in dialogue and narrative.

The story is told as a sequence of events.  Mostly simple sentences are used.  Quotation marks, exclamation marks, question marks, ellipses, apostrophes, and commas are used. Bold face and italic used for emphasis.  An artistic font is used to add meaning to words such as wibbled and wobbled.  Humorous illustrations support the text directly and add meaning.

The contraction don’t is used.  Singular/plural pairs include cloud/clouds and person/people.  The homonyms high/hi appear.  Interest words include company, jiggled, jerked, furious, swarm, and flock.

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