Courtesy of Chronicle Books 
When author Bruce Handy’s son Isaac was about four years old, he loved and lost an orange balloon. “He’d been upset,” the older Handy remembers, “and he had promised to himself one day if he ever got a pet, he would name it Balloon, in honor of this balloon that he lost.”
Six months later, Isaac and his sister got kittens. “And he did it,” says Handy. His sister named her cat S’morze and Isaac
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