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On the island he finds a unique utopian society with. A great adventure story, with a different kind of hero. When released, my balloon instantly and gracefully rose to a height of sixteen hundred feet, and kept this altitude as a swift wind carried me out over san francisco and over the pacific ocean. The twentyone balloons is a novel by william pene du bois, published in 1947 by the viking. This led him to other picture books, and he began purchasing illustrations from those books. About the twentyone balloons puffin modern classics.
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