Saturdays at the Children's Zoo with their father always end the same way for Ariel, Miranda, and Jane: he offers them money for a treat, but they choose instead to buy food for the animals.

One Saturday, a mysterious balloon man gives them a small reward for their kindness—a blue balloon for Ariel, a red one for Miranda, and a yellow one for Jane. Soon they find that their generosity and the balloon man's simple gift have brought them more magic than they could ever have imagined . . .

Julianna Margulies's father told this story to her and her sisters when they were young. She presents it now in his loving memory.

About the Authors
Julianna Margulies is an award-winning actress. She has won three Emmy Awards, eight Screen Actors Guild awards, and a Golden Globe for her work on ER and The Good Wife, for which she is also a producer. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.

Paul Eli Margulies was an American writer, philosopher and advertising-industry creative director. Margulies was famous for writing jingles ("Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, Oh What a Relief it Is!") and inventing tag lines such as "I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing." A graduate of Dartmouth, with a degree in philosophy, Margulies retired at an early age to write about philosophy.