Mathilda and the Orange Balloon Quotes

“Mathilda’s unwavering quest for color in a black-and-white world inspires the hope that anything is possible.”

“Mathilda’s world was small. Here’s is what was in it: Green grass. Green barn. Gray skies. Gray stones.”

″ Gray sheep, gray sheep. Which was all nice enough, until the bright orange balloon floated by.”

“It caught Mathilda’s eye while she was grazing. Mathilda had never seen anything so magnificent. At once, something inside her woke up.”

“With charming line-and-watercolor illustrations, as effervescent as an orange balloon…[kids] will get the idea that imagination can take them right up in the air.”

“When an orange balloon floats over her world of green and gray, Mathilda the sheep realizes that she can be more than she is, and sets out to convince the rest of the flock that anything is possible”

“What was that?′ she asked the others. They were older and had seen such wonders before. They barely looked up from the ground. ‘Balloon,’ said a nearby ewe, her mouth full of grass.”

“Orange balloon,′ said another, starting on a clump of clover. ‘Orange balloon. . .’ said Mathilda. ‘That’s me!’ ‘You?’ the sheep laughed. ‘You’re not orange. And you’re not a balloon.”

“Who′s to say a plain gray sheep can′t be an orange balloon if she wants? ”

““Refusing to follow the boring herd mentality of her grazing companions, a visionary little sheep uses her imagination to achieve the impossible…The unflappable Mathilda will tickle and inspire.”