Twenty-One Balloons
by William Pène du Bois
This is a children’s book and is fanciful nonsense but so charming. It’s about a balloonist who lands in the Pacific on Krakatoa, which is nonsense because Krakatoa is not in the Pacific.
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“A short, silly and utterly charming book which a generation of children, particularly American children, have enjoyed.” Read more...
Simon Winchester, Journalist
