The Twenty-one Balloons
by William Pène Du Bois
Taste attributes: familyadventurefantasyfastwholesomelightimaginarylinearglossybig & variedall consuming questsolving the riddle/not as it seemsfish out of water/culture clash
Boxlist takeA warm-hearted, heightened family novel: light and polished. Best if you like warmth over edge.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: very wholesome · Weight: light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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4.3 / 5
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About This Book
Professor William Waterman Sherman just wants to be alone. So he decides to take a year off and spend it crossing the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon the likes of which no one has ever seen. But when he is found after just three weeks floating in the Atlantic among the wreckage of twenty hot-air balloons, naturally, the world is eager to know what happened. How did he end up with so many balloons . . .
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- Author
- William Pène Du Bois
- Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 179
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- Open Library
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