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The Twenty-One Balloons is a 1947 novel awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in children’s literature. It tells the fictitious story of a retired professor who intended to travel the world in a hot air balloon but crashed on Krakatoa, an island populated by 20 wealthy diamond-mining families.
Two themes of this book are creativity and cooperation. Illustrations depict a variety of clever inventions attributed to the islanders, and the families’ rules have achieved utopia.
Author(s): William Pène Du Bois
Lexile: 1070