01006cam a2200241 4500 243218892 TxAuBib ||||||t19861947||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780140303582 pbk. 0140303588 pbk. TxAuBib Du Bois, William Pène, 1916- The twenty-one balloons / written and illustrated by William Pene Du Bois. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Puffin Books, 1986. ©1947. 179 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Puffin Newbery library Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1947. Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic. Balloons Fiction. Voyages and travels Fiction. Krakatoa (Indonesia) Eruption, 1883. Puffin Newbery library.