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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
Fun read with the kids. Wonderfully absurd and well paced.
A very imaginative, fun, and funny children's book with incredible illustrations.
I want to be a part of a gastronomy government.
I want to be a part of a gastronomy government.
This book is my favourite book of all time! I re-read it every year. It is a fun, quick read everyone will love.
If you love adventures full of bizarre characters and fantastic events, this story is for you. Adults will enjoy it almost as much as children, making it a perfect read-aloud book.
Professor William Waterman Sherman plans on flying around the world in a hot air balloon for the next year. He wants to have time to himself, after retiring from being a teacher. Soon after beginning his journey, Professor Sherman's plans are derailed.
This is a fun and fanciful journey set in the early 1900's/late 1800's.
This is a fun and fanciful journey set in the early 1900's/late 1800's.
This is one if my favorite juvenile fiction books of all time. I actually own my dad's copy of the book, and I think I will read it to my kids in a few years. It's whimsical, fantastical, and just plain fun. I think some of the reviews that don't think it's exciting are reviewing it with a 2014 mindset- forgetting that the book came out in 1947. A lot has changed in 67 years in terms of what was considered shocking or appropriate for children to read. If you remember when it was written, it helps suspend some of the "this is not exciting" thoughts, in my opinion. I love this book!
At first I thought this would be a whimsical adventure novel much like the very-fun [book:Around the World in Eighty Days|54479] (which even gets a hat tip in the first chapter) ... but I kept reading and waiting and was just more and more disappointed the further I read. So often I love a Newbery-winner because of the characters or character development -- but this was just a fantastical travelogue of a sixty-six-year-old retiree: his character is hardly fleshed out and certainly doesn't change, and all other characters are not even given a name beyond a simple letter: "F" or "M." It might make for decent read-aloud, and my twelve-year-old said he thought it was pretty good, but I can't say I liked this one.
Weird and fantastical but exactly the kind of imagination feeder I hope my kids like to read.
This had big Jules Verne energy, which is nice after the slog some of these Newberry winners have been