When Simon the squirrel's mother asks him to go shopping, he and his friends decide to fly to the moon in Old Uncle Somerset's hot air balloon in search of cheese.

"Ten-year-old Walter Tipple is grieving his beloved older brother, Tank, when a sassy girl named Posey moves in next door and Banjo, a hot-air balloonist, sets the pair on an adventure." --

Freya, a penguin, and Zoose, a mouse, become friends while stowaways on Salomon August Andreé's 1897 hot air balloon expedition to the North Pole. --

Digby O'Day and his best friend, Percy, are headed to the air show to see gliders, helicopters, and hot-air balloons. Ariel, the new pet parrot of insufferable neighbor Lou Ella, sneaks out to tag along. But when the friends get to the air show, they notice that Lou Ella has followed them. They hide, but unfortunately, they're crouched in the basket of a hot-air balloon, and one big gust of wind sets the balloon flying. Between Digby's fear of heights...

Benny wants adventure and finds it as he and the other Alden children help uncover the plan of those who would prevent ballooning from coming to Lloyd's Landing.

Henry Bear plans to search for his father, who left a park in Henry's care when he went off in a hot air balloon.

Two solitary children living in two different apartment buildings have nothing in common except compassion for an old man and his dog.

"Raccoon is in search of adventure! A hot air balloon looks like the perfect way for her to experience flying...but how do you get down?"--Provided by publisher.

All the animals try to get a reaction out of the mysterious lumpy grumpalump, but nothing happens until the gnu blows into it and gets an inflated surprise.