Every Thanksgiving morning for more than eighty years, mammoth-size balloons have risen to the skies to wobble and sawy, sally and shimmy, up and down the canyons of New York City.

Just how did this beloved tradition come to Broadway? Who first invented these wondrous "upside-down marionettes"?

Meet TONY SARG: the boy who loved to figure out how things moved—the boy who became the puppeteer of Macy's parade.

From the dust jacket