originally published:
New York : Viking Press
1947
awards:
Newbery(1948)
reference info
bio notes:
born: 5/9/1916 died: 2/5/1993 born as: William Pene Du Bois
American author and illustrator of children's books noted for his comic coterie of peculiar characters. In 1948 he was awarded the Newbery Medal for The Twenty-One Balloons (1947). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature