![]() Today the Mazza Museum of International Art from Picture Books in Findlay, Ohio, contains this early collection as well as thousands of other pieces added over the years. ![]() This led him to other picture books, and he began purchasing illustrations from those books. Mallett took his first course in children’s literature, he read The Twenty-One Balloons and became enchanted with Pène du Bois’s pencil illustrations for the book. On her Children’s Book-a-Day Almanac Anita Silvey reports that, “When another great teacher, Dr. But eventually all the inhabitants must flee, on a well-constructed balloon-propelled platform.”įascinatingly, the book proved to be the inspiration for more than just a few hopes and dreams. ![]() The professor marvels at the amazing community built there, funded by a diamond mine on the island. This is the Pacific Island of Krakatoa.’ Three days before its historic eruption, the island might be mistaken for paradise. Upon awakening, the Professor asks, ‘Is this Heaven,’ only to be told, ‘this isn’t Heaven. He experiences a week of idyllic ballooning, until a sea gull destroys his conveyance and sends him plummeting to earth. ![]() The description of the plot from Anita Silvey’s Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Children’s Book reads, “Although Professor William Waterman Sherman travels around the world in forty days, he began his expedition in 1883 as a leisurely balloon flight, a way to distance himself from all the students who had plagued him over the years. ![]()
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