The Twenty-One Balloons

…awarded the Newbery Medal for The Twenty-One Balloons (1947).

…nothing more uproariously delightful than The Twenty-one Balloons (1947), merging some of the appeals of Jules Verne with those of Samuel Butler’s Erewhon and adding a sly humor all his own. Two renowned New Yorker writers, James Thurber and E.B. White, developed into successful fantasists, Thurber with an elaborate series…