The Twenty-One Balloons - Rambling Readers

English language

Published Jan. 1, 1986

ISBN:: 978-0-14-032097-8

(1 review)

The Twenty-One Balloons is a novel by William Pène du Bois, published in 1947 by the Viking Press and awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1948. The story is about a retired schoolteacher whose ill-fated balloon trip leads him to discover Krakatoa, an island full of great wealth and fantastic inventions. The events and ideas are based both on scientific fact and imagination, and the descriptions are accompanied by illustrations by du Bois. The novel depicts the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.

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5 stars

what a charming book. no wonder the man won the Newberry with it. filled with fanciful inventions, immense treasure, and high risk adventure, this book might even get my youngest reading beyond comic books. even hubby remembered this tale from school and was thrilled to see it on our kitchen counter.