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The twenty-one balloons / written and illustrated by William Pene Du Bois. |
| Authors: | Du Bois, William Pène, 1916- |
| Call number: | jFIC DUB |
| Publisher: | New York : Puffin Books, 1986, c1947. |
| Publication date: | 1986, c1947. |
| Subject: |
Children's literature.
Balloons -- Fiction. Voyages and travels -- Fiction. Indianapolis Room Collection (IMCPL). Krakatoa (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1883. |
| Title: | The twenty-one balloons / written and illustrated by William Pene Du Bois. |
| Additional title: | 21 balloons |
| Physical description: | 179 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Notes: | Editions added to this record: Viking (1947), 179 pages ; Scholastic (1975), 179 pages ; Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1947. |
| Summary note: | Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic. |
| Awards note: | Newbery Medal winner, 1948. |
| ISBN: | 0140320970 0140303588 (pbk.) 0670734411 (Viking) 0590569252 (Scholastic) |
| LCCN: | 86042513 /AC |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|208515 |
| Bib No.: | 208515 |