The Twenty-One Balloons
ISBN: 0140320970
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date: April 1986
Recommend Age Range: 9 to 12
A balloonist lands abruptly on an uninhabited Pacific island
and is welcomed by a colony of formally dressed people living in an advanced
civilization. An unlikely, imaginative, and funny parable about what it
is like to live on the edge of disaster. Winner of a Newbery Medal 1947.
