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Name: Away went the balloons
Author: Carolyn Haywood

📘 Away went the balloons by Carolyn Haywood

Some of the balloons released on Balloon Day by the Blue Bell School first graders go to very special people and places.

First publish date: 1973

Authors: Carolyn Haywood

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