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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.
William Sherman Pène du Bois [a] (May 9, 1916 – February 5, 1993) was an American writer and illustrator of books for young readers. He is best known for The Twenty-One Balloons, published in April 1947 by Viking Press, for which he won the 1948 Newbery Medal.
Along with the reviews, there are short excerpts from some of the books themselves, which appear in bold alongside the review. 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up is separated by reading level , [ 5 ] and each title includes summaries with information on the author as well; [ 6 ] each picture book title is accompanied by ...
The unexpected passenger's only intent is to take the balloon as high as it will go, even at the cost of his and pilot's life. The intruder takes advantage of the long journey to recount the history of incidents related to the epic of lighter-than-air travel. This short story foreshadows Verne's first novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon.
Children's short stories are fiction stories, generally under 100 pages long, written for children. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
And $12 gets hobby balloonists — who use balloons for ham radio or just for the pleasure of launching and tracking — balloons capable of getting up to 40,000 feet and higher.
The Fantastic Flying Journey is a 1987 children's adventure novel by Gerald Durrell. It is a story about three children and their great-uncle Lancelot travelling around the world in a hot air balloon. It was illustrated by Graham Percy and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
A tragic accident that happened Wednesday night is raising red flags about the significant yet often forgotten danger balloons pose to small children. 8-year-old girl suffocated to death by Mylar ...