The Twenty-One Balloons

New York: Viking, 1948.

Price: $19.50

Hardcover. Second edition. Good in good dust jacket. Writing on front endpaper. Pages light brown. Corners rubbed and bent. Edges of spine bumped. Dustwrapper price clipped. Wear and tear on edges of dust jacket. Winner of John Newbery Medal Award.

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William Pene Du Bois
birth name: William Pene Du Bois
born: 5/9/1916
died: 2/5/1993

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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 Literaturemore