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chaosmavin 's review for:
Twenty-One Balloons
by William Pène du Bois
I have this theory that the book a person loves as a child… The one that they keep going back to over and over is very telling of key personality factors they will continue to manifest all of their lives. The story I always went back to was Alice in Wonderland…When I was obsessed with this story I was neither voraciously curious, a fan of the absurd or an Anglophile, yet these turned out to be cornerstones of person I became.
When recently a close friend shared with me that their favorite book when they were in fifth grade was this book the 21 balloons I had to have a listen and see if my theory would hold up. It did indeed! I found myself chuckling quite a bit over the aspects of the main characters personality I can see in my friends. I also was amused by the fact that her fifth grade self probably reveled marveled and desperately wanted to re-create some of the wondrous inventions found in the book. I’m also quite impressed that she favored a book with such a not so likable male character… But that too is fitting of her. She promises me she will read it again to see if it holds up… I think it will as I was reading it for the first time and still found it a delightfully silly adventure in which my brain was able to conjure fantastical visuals to go along with.
Please keep in mind if you are reading this review and considering this book for a wee one it was written in 1947 and while the imagination holds solid so does the white supremacy… so best to vet the content and be ready to have some good conversations about colonization.
When recently a close friend shared with me that their favorite book when they were in fifth grade was this book the 21 balloons I had to have a listen and see if my theory would hold up. It did indeed! I found myself chuckling quite a bit over the aspects of the main characters personality I can see in my friends. I also was amused by the fact that her fifth grade self probably reveled marveled and desperately wanted to re-create some of the wondrous inventions found in the book. I’m also quite impressed that she favored a book with such a not so likable male character… But that too is fitting of her. She promises me she will read it again to see if it holds up… I think it will as I was reading it for the first time and still found it a delightfully silly adventure in which my brain was able to conjure fantastical visuals to go along with.
Please keep in mind if you are reading this review and considering this book for a wee one it was written in 1947 and while the imagination holds solid so does the white supremacy… so best to vet the content and be ready to have some good conversations about colonization.