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Storytime: Balloons and Bubbles

Up, up, and away! Float through the air with balloons, bubbles, and big imaginations in these playful picture books. Whether they're drifting through the sky or popping with joy, each story brings a little lift to your day.

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  • Bubbles and balloons in one story! Pip is proud of his big red balloon, but when he lets go of it and it floats away out of reach, Posy cheers him up with lots of bubbles.
    Picture Book, 2013Somerville, Mass. : Nosy Crow, 2013, c2012 — J PICTURE BOOK SCH
  • Mabel blows a bubble that captures Baby and wafts him away, resulting in a wild chase that involves the whole neighborhood.
    Picture Book, 2009New York, NY : Clarion Books, 2009 — J PICTURE BOOK MAH
  • With gentle prodding from the narrator and help from the reader, four monsters are led to face their greatest fear—bubbles.
    Picture Book, 2014Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014] — J PICTURE BOOK RUB
  • Owl has a red balloon and Monkey wants it, but Owl does not want to share. So Monkey tries to find something to trade for the balloon.
    Picture Book, 2017New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2017] — J PICTURE BOOK BER
  • Ball wishes he could fly like Balloon, but when a boy arrives and sends Ball rolling, bouncing, and even soaring into the air, Balloon feels deflated.
    Picture Book, 2019New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2019] — J PICTURE BOOK SAN
  • Molly buys so many balloons for all her animal friends at the fair, she gets carried away into the air.
    Picture Book, 2009New York : Philomel Books, c2009 — J PICTURE BOOK GOR
  • A day at the community pool is full of unwater magic—dunking and diving with friends; somersaulting, walking on your hands, and bursting up through the surface like a tortoise.
    Picture Book, 2021New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — J PICTURE BOOK DAV
  • A sweet and bubbly story about learning to be true to who you are.
    Picture Book, 2025New York : Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., [2025] — J PICTURE BOOK HO
  • When Little Owl loses her blu-blu, everyone tries to help her find it—if only they could figure out what a blu-blu is!
    Picture Book, 2011New York : NorthSouth Books, 2011 — J PICTURE BOOK FRI
  • Clifford the small red puppy counts from one to ten while playing with bubbles.
    Board Book, 1992New York : Scholastic, c1992 — BOARD BOOKS BRI
  • A skunk who has a balloon tied to his tail floats through a bustling parade, past the windowpanes of city apartments, and through a construction zone before landing on top of a Ferris wheel and realizing that he is loving the aerial life.
    Picture Book, 2016Toronto, ON ; Berkeley, CA : Owlkids Books, [2016] — J PICTURE BOOK LAM
  • When Simon the squirrel's mother asks him to go shopping, he and his friends decide to fly to the moon in Old Uncle Somerset's hot air balloon in search of cheese.
    Picture Book, 2013Minneapolis : Anderson Press USA, 2013 — J PICTURE BOOK BEN
  • Kangaroo and Koala become fast friends when they vanquish a bubble monster together.
    Picture Book, 2018New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2018] — J PICTURE BOOK CHA
  • Bubbles

    a Narwhal and Jelly Board Book

    Clanton, Ben, 1988-
    When Narwhal accidentally bursts Jelly's bubble with his tusk-tooth, Jelly is a little sad—until Narwhal shows him that there are lots of bubbles in the ocean.
    Board Book, 2021New York : Tundra Books of Northern New York, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House of Canada Limited, 2021 — BOARD BOOKS CLA
  • Lured into a hot air balloon by the smell of fried chicken, Sally the Labrador Retriever inadvertently goes for a ride all by herself.
    Picture Book, 2010New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2010 — J PICTURE BOOK HUN