This delightful novel by William Pène du Bois, published in 1947 was awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1948. The story is about a retired schoolteacher whose ill-fated balloon trip leads him to discover an island full of great wealth and fantastic inventions. The events and ideas are based both on scientific fact and imagination.
THIS WEEK: Professor William Waterman Sherman has a secret, when he turns up in the Atlantic in the wreckage of a mass of hot air balloons. But he'll not divulge a single detail until he reaches the Western American Explorer's Club in San Francisco! He'll not even tell the President of the United States! So, the adventure begins.
Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.
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