The twenty-one balloons

William Pène Du Bois John McDonough First published 1965

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 . . . and in the wrong ocean?

Subjects

  • ballooning
  • balloons
  • balloons, fiction
  • children's fiction
  • children's stories
  • eruption, 1883
  • eruption of krakatoa (indonesia : 1883) fast (ocolc)fst01353004
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • hot air balloons
  • influence
  • inventions
  • juvenile fiction
  • krakatoa (indonesia)
  • newbery medal
  • newbery medal book
  • newbery medal books
  • voyages and travels
  • voyages and travels, fiction
  • voyages around the world
  • wealth