Storytime: Paloma and the Dust Devil at the Balloon Festival

Santa Fe author  Marcy Heller reads and signs her new book Paloma and the Dust Devil at the Balloon Festival (Azro Press, $19.95) at a morning storytime! 

Today is a big day for Paloma! She and her father are going up in a hot air balloon with their friend Gilbert, who is a real balloon pilot. Their ride starts out quite peacefully. They rise from the field surrounded by hundreds of other colorful balloons. Suddenly they find themselves in the middle of a dust devil. What will happen? They are swept out to the west side of the city where they land in a field, and they find themselves transported back in time!

This book contains the exciting story of Paloma and her family as well as an author's note, a diagram of balloon parts, and a brief history of hot air ballooning.

Marcy Heller has a B.F.A. in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an M.F.A. in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Heller was a scholarly book designer at the University of North Carolina Press, and Assistant Production Manager and Design at Stanford University Press. She learned pop-up book design and production and now focuses on designing and writing children's books.  Previous books include Just You and Me, Grandpa, and Loco Dog and the Dust Devil in the Railyard. Heller has lived in Santa Fe for twenty-four years and is the mother of two children.