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Copyright 2011 by Melissa Sweet All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003. Houghton Mifflin Books for Children is an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. www.hmhbooks.com The text of this book is set in Museo. The illustrations are gouache, collage, and mixed media. p. cm ISBN 978-0-547-19945-0 1. cm ISBN 978-0-547-19945-0 1. Sarg, Tony, 18821942Juvenile literature. 2. Puppeteers United StatesBiographyJuvenile literature. 3. Thanksgiving Day New York (State)New YorkHistoryJuvenile literature. 4.
ParadesNew York (State)New YorkHistorJuvenile literature. I. Title. PN1982.S27S84 2011 791.5'3092dc22 [B] 2010044181 E-ISBN 978-0-547-76716-1
rom the time he was a little boy, Tony Sarg loved to figure out how to make things move. He once said he became a marionette man when he was only six years old.
H is father had asked him to feed their chickens at six-thirty in the morningevery day. Tony had an ideawhat if he could feed he chickens without leaving his bed? He rigged up some pulleys and ran rope from the chicken coop door to his bedroom window. That night, he spread chicken feed outside the chicken coop door. Tony pulled on the rope, and the door to the chicken coop opened! The next morning... The chickens ate their breakfast, Tony stayed snug in his bed, and his dad, so impressed, never made Tony do another chore.
W hen Tony grew up he moved to London, where he discovered that no one was making marionettes for kids anymore. So out of wood, cloth, and strings, Tony began to make puppets. He figured out ways to make his marionettes movement so lifelike that they performed as if they were real actors. Word soon spread about Tonys amazing marionettes. When Tony moved to New York City, the Tony Sarg Marionettes began performing on Broadway.
I n the heart of New York City, in Herald Square, was the biggest store on earth: R. H. department store. department store. Macys had heard about Tonys puppets and asked him to design a puppet parade for the store's holiday windows. So Tony made new puppets based on storybook
I n Macys Wondertown windows, Tonys mechanical marionettes danced across the stage as if by magic. All day long they performed to shoppers jostling for a better look.
B ut Macys had an even bigger job in store for Tony. Many of the people working at Macys were immigrants, and as the holidays approached, they missed their own holiday traditions of music and dancing in the streets. Macys agreed to put on a parade for their employees, and they hired Tony to help. Tony too was an immigrant, so he loved the idea of creating a parade based on street carnivals from all over the world. He made costumes and built horse-drawn floats, and Macys even arranged to bring in bears, elephants, and camels from the Central Park Zoo.
T he animals joined hundreds of Macys employees on Thanksgiving Day, 1924, winding their way from Harlem to Herald Square. It was a dazzling parade!
I n fact, Macys first parade was such a success that they decided to have one every year on Thanksgiving Dayto celebrate Americas own holiday.
E ach year the parade grew.
Macys asked Tony to replace the animals.
T ony hoped to replace the animalswith some kind of puppets, but his
marionettes were less than three feet
tall.
T ony hoped to replace the animalswith some kind of puppets, but his
marionettes were less than three feet
tall.
He would have to make much
larger puppets in order for them to be
seen in the parade. And how could
he make them strong enough to hold
up in bad weather yet light enough
to move up and down the streets?
T ony knew of a company in Ohiothat made blimps out of rubberthe
perfect material for any weather. When
he called the company and showed
them his sketches, they agreed to make
what Tony wanted. Still, how would Tony make his big puppets move? Then Tony had an ideafrom
an Indonesian rod puppet in his
toy collection.
O n Thanksgiving Day, Tonys creatures, some as high as sixteen feet, spilled into the streets, and the crowds cheered wildly.
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