A review by careinthelibrary
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois

2.0

I read this book and loved it in grade six, but after reading it again, I found flaws within it. I couldn't stand the simplistic writing! If you're going to write that simplistically, it should be good. Repetitive. That's what it was. The story was worse than I remembered, and the characters were, quite frankly, annoying. The relief factor was the diamond mines! I loved them. That's all that bumped it up to 2 stars, honestly.