Picture Book-10

Author: Amy Axelrod
Title: Great Balloon Race
Illustrator: Tim Bowers
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Picture book 
Theme: Overcome your fears
Primary and Secondary charactesrs: Main: Molly, Jake and Isaac
Awards, date of publication: 2000
Publishing company: Simon & Schuster books for young readers
This book tells the story of three news anchors going on location at a hot-air balloon festival. Their names are Molly, Isaac and Jake. The news anchors get to go up in their own balloon, but Isaac is scared of heights. Jake then talks him into it. When they get up in the air and begin filming the wind blows and Isaac then is scared. However, he is still excited about his ride in the hot-air balloon and is ready to go again. This will teach the students to overcome their fears. It will also push them to try new things.