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

3.0

This was a really fun read and I think my girls would have given it 4 stars. I thought it got off to a really slow start... all of the preparations to here the professor's story could have been put into one chapter instead of several. I would have liked more detail about the island life or even the professor's time in the air. While we had a good time reading this it certainly wouldn't have been a Newbery contender today- times have certainly changed.