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Thanks to Betsy Bird's A Fuse #8 Production, I can share this video of The Twentu One Balloons by William Pene DuBois. He's ANOTHER of my favorite authors and he made the 100 Top Fiction books list that Betsy put together.
By: David Elzey,
on 5/18/2011
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by William Pene Du Bois
Viking Press 1956
In an animal factory in the sky winged artists invent new animals, including one very unusual looking lion.
Artist Foreman, looking suspiciously like an angel, was one of the first animal designers in the Animal Factory in the sky. Now in semi-retirement as, well, a foreman to the other artists, he has come up with a new name for an animal --
what a hoot! That was cool!