Las Animas - Bent County Library District

"In December 1920, three US Navy officials boarded a hot air balloon for a routine training flight, but end up stranded in the Canadian wilderness"--

The race is on to be the first to discover the secret of flight! Magpie is soon caught up in a world of science, spies, and unruly animals to be the first to passenger in a hot air balloon. Yesterday, Magpie was one of the best thieves in all of France. But an encounter with a boy dangling from the sky will change her life forever. And even though it ends in disaster, Magpie becomes enthralled by the idea of flying over the rooftops of Paris like...

Altoona Baboona travels the world in her hot air balloon.

While visiting Mt. Rushmore, Curious George gets into mischief when he takes an unplanned ride on a hot air balloon.

In late nineteenth-century Australia, Patrick McWaid and Michael take an accidental ride on a hot air balloon.

Bonnie and Orson, two young rabbits, build a hot air balloon to enter in a St. Valentine's Day balloon race.

In 1783 France, ten-year-old Emilie works as Benjamin Franklin's caretaker, but after he finds himself in the middle of a sinister plot, he helps France's undercover guardians--a sheep, a roster, and a duck-- save the world.

Curious to see outside her field, Beth the cow sneaks onto a hot air balloon and goes for a wild ride, upsetting a number of people and collecting many objects and additional riders along the way.

Harriet, the chicken, rescues her foolish friend from the clutches of a wily fox.

Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.