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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
adventurous
medium-paced
Very imaginative, very original!
adventurous
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
4.5! Very creative and so fun to imagine a life like this!
While this book is magically written and is a fun story of adventure, it has not aged well. The words native and negro are tossed about quite casually.
A very engaging story, with some amazing illustrations! It is very fantastical, which makes is very enjoyable. :)
A fun read in my ongoing quest to read the books I own.
Wonderful voice and measure. I laughed out loud! (I don't think I would have enjoyed or appreciated this book as much as a kid as I do now.)
Perhaps a little slow in the beginning, but I enjoyed almost every moment. My favorite things were the inventions--if we only had chairs and tables that stored away so neatly! The "airy-go-round" sounded delightful, too. The illustrations, some drawn like diagrams in their detail, added much to the story. Fabulous imagination by the author!
I credit this book with making me a "real reader." I read it in 5th grade when I was home sick for several days. I thought the page count was higher than it is. Maybe that was just my 5th grade imagination. I do remember that it had the Newbery medal on the cover and I always chose books on display that had a gold or silver medal on the cover because if it won a prize it must be good, right? I took it out of my school library. I had always read from the time I learned in 1st grade but I usually read books with pictures or short chapter books like the Beverly Cleary. But Twenty-one Balloons ignited my voracious appetite for reading because I was so proud I finished a "big" book so quickly. I can't remember when I began reading the old Nancy Drew books we had in our cellar. Why they were in the cellar, I'll never know. Maybe because we had most of the series, some 40 or so volumes. They smelled musty like the cellar but I devoured them. They were some of the originals with Nancy dressed in her mid-century tailored dresses, which I loved.
Anyway, Twenty-one Balloons began my love affair with reading.
Anyway, Twenty-one Balloons began my love affair with reading.
A short and quirky tale about a retired teacher who sets off in a balloon to get away from it all for a year and lands on Krakatoa just before it explodes.
The beginning was really good fun, I could just imagine it as a colourful cartoon in the style of 'Up'. The descriptions of what he found on Krakatoa were really interesting, there were some really good ideas.
The story involves lots of balloons in various ingenious guises.
The beginning was really good fun, I could just imagine it as a colourful cartoon in the style of 'Up'. The descriptions of what he found on Krakatoa were really interesting, there were some really good ideas.
The story involves lots of balloons in various ingenious guises.