The Twenty-One Balloons by Wiiliam Pene du Bois won the Newberry Award in 1948. This was a nice book to get the reader to escape and enter a new world. Sherman is a retired school teacher, who was last seen in San Fransisco before his trip around the world. It turned out that he escaped in a giant balloon. He went over the Pacific Ocean, and ended up on an island and came upon a diamond mine. In this mine, twenty families were there living off of the number twenty. Each family was given a letter of the first twenty in the alphabet, and created a restaurant off of it. Each of their months were twenty days as well.
This book enters a huge fantasy land. There are, of course, problems on the island that the reader comes across. Some people love the wealth and secret found, and some are worried. When looking at the cover of the book, I would have never thought of the fantasy that would be a result of me reading it. The main illustrations seemed older and kind of tattered, therefore, the contents were a huge surprise to me. I really enjoyed it, and recommend it for anyone 4th-7th grade.
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