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The Moon's a Balloon is a best-selling memoir by British actor David Niven (1910–1983), published in 1971. [1] It details his early life. There have been several editions and many translations of the book over the years. Niven followed it with a sequel, Bring on the Empty Horses, in 1975.
Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is the first novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a story line full of adventure and plot twists that keep the reader's ...
The book is about five children each of whom get a balloon from Ruti's mother — a blue balloon for Ruti, yellow for Ron, purple for Sigalit, green for Uri and red for Alon. During the book, all the children's balloons burst, with the exception of Alon's, which the wind blew out of the children's reach.
According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on eight critic reviews with five being "rave" and one being "positive" and two being "mixed". [ 5 ] Leyla Sanai in The Independent 's writes " Levels of Life uses the pioneering of balloon flight and the development of aerial photography as metaphors for the soaring heights ...
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.
In 2001, a 2D-animated children's television show was produced by Two Sides TV and TV-Loonland AG based on the book. In addition to the original plot, a villain called Lucretia Moore follows Lancelot and the children in their air balloon, and tries to sabotage their attempts to find Perceval, so she can steal the magic dust.
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Download as PDF; Printable version ... Books originally published by Black Balloon Publishing. Pages in category "Black Balloon Publishing books" The following 6 ...