Comments on: Fusenews: Can YOU Identify What Sally is Reading?

By: Elizabeth Bird

Elizabeth Bird — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:47:27 +0000

Not quite sure what you meant about “copyright legal”. It should be okay in any case.

By: ChrisVA

ChrisVA — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:06:23 +0000

Thought this an interesting way to talk a book (in this case, The 21 Balloons). Is this copyright legal, do you think? I could sure use this style with students.

By: david e

david e — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:55:44 +0000

without a doubt, 21 balloons. it’s the last illustration at the end of the introduction of the original version, the explosion of Krakatoa.

By: Ellen Heath

Ellen Heath — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:52:25 +0000

My initial reaction before I read the comments was that it was Twenty-One Balloons. The illustration inside could certainly be Pene du Bois. So I vote with Tracy. (On the other hand, it WOULD be fun to call in to ask, so on that I vote with Marjorie.)

By: Sarah Stevenson (aquafortis)

Sarah Stevenson (aquafortis) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:33:49 +0000

No idea what the book is, but I LOVE those Polish Tolkien covers!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:51:12 +0000

Tracy called it. I checked my copy. The illustration is on p. 7.

By: Mary Bolaños

Mary Bolaños — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:42:54 +0000

It is, indeed, “The Twenty-One Balloons”. The inside illustration is in the introduction and depicts the eruption of Mount Krakatoa.

By: Schuyler

Schuyler — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:10:20 +0000

Thought I posted earlier, but must have not hit submit.
It’s Twenty One Balloons, by William Pene du Bois, and she’s open to pages 6-7.

By: Brooke Shirts

Brooke Shirts — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:01:36 +0000

Oh, I can always mesmerize people with my knowledge of Dewey. Always. And LC? That just leaves ‘em floored.

By: Karen Maurer

Karen Maurer — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:41:02 +0000

Twenty-One Balloons, it is. I knew right away that the inside illustration was by William Pene DuBois and then I looked more closely at the cover. I have that book somewhere around here – I think.