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The Twenty-one Balloons

By: William Pene du Bois
Narrated by: Hal Hollings
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Summary
 A Newbery Medal Winner

Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions. Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal.

"William Pene du Bois combines his rich imagination, scientific tastes, and brilliant artistry to tell a story that has no age limit."—The Horn Book Action & Adventure Fantasy & Magic Geography & Cultures Science Fiction & Fantasy Travel
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I read that story to my children many years ago, we enjoyed it and I forgot almost all of it. Listening to it today, I was delighted. This is a simple utopian creation, with some simple and so valuable philosophical comments here and there. It was written in another time, so as a woman I had to, again, reshuffle in my mind the roles distribution. It does not prevent it from being well worth reading today. Also, it makes a lot of technical proposals that can interest the technically leaning.

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