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Hot Air Balloons Books
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The Twenty-One Balloons (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,174 ratings — published 1947
Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride
by (shelved 6 times as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,572 ratings — published 2005
A Voyage in the Clouds: The (Mostly) True Story of the First International Flight by Balloon in 1785
by (shelved 3 times as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.77 — 472 ratings — published 2016
Hot Air Balloons (Pigs Might Fly!)
by (shelved 2 times as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published
Flight for Freedom: The Wetzel Family’s Daring Escape from East Germany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 4.48 — 433 ratings — published 2019
The Noon Balloon (Mwb Picture Books)
by (shelved 2 times as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.80 — 135 ratings — published 1952
Wishing for a Dragon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.96 — 71 ratings — published
The Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.40 — 2,563 ratings — published 2004
And Away We Go! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.55 — 297 ratings — published 2014
Terror in Desert Skies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 4.40 — 30 ratings — published
Around The World In 80 Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,125 ratings — published 2006
Death at Devil's Bridge (Kathryn Ardleigh, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,569 ratings — published 1998
Make Tracks: In the Sky (Board Book)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.64 — 14 ratings — published
Petal and Poppy and the Mystery Valentine (Green Light Readers Level 2)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.36 — 58 ratings — published 2015
Up and Away!: How Two Brothers Invented the Hot-Air Balloon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.93 — 45 ratings — published
Jane Austen's England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,856 ratings — published 2013
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.80 — 846 ratings — published 2013
The Last Zookeeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 4.23 — 865 ratings — published 2024
There Might Be a Kazoo Emergency: Ready-to-Read Graphics Level 2 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.74 — 34 ratings — published
Mr. Tiger, Betsy, and the Sea Dragon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 4.09 — 79 ratings — published
Are You Big? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.72 — 559 ratings — published 2024
Little Polar Bear and the Big Balloon (Little Polar Bear)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.88 — 144 ratings — published
Ten Lords A-Leaping (Father Christmas Mystery, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.54 — 924 ratings — published 2013
Wild Is the Wind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.95 — 167 ratings — published
The Romantic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,609 ratings — published 2022
Spring Fun (Season Fun)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.77 — 22 ratings — published
Owl and Penguin (I Like to Read Comics)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.87 — 293 ratings — published
Broken Bone China (A Tea Shop Mystery, #20)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,550 ratings — published 2019
Around the World in Eighty Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.95 — 286,682 ratings — published 1872
Steampunk Voyages (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.13 — 23 ratings — published 2013
Sebastian and the Balloon: A Picture Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.62 — 781 ratings — published 2014
Wings: A Tale of Two Chickens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.77 — 145 ratings — published 1986
Britfield and the Lost Crown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 4.16 — 763 ratings — published 2019
The Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.61 — 483 ratings — published 2022
George and Martha: A Classic Picture Book About Friendship and Humor with Two Lovable Hippos for Children (Ages 4-7)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,536 ratings — published 1972
Halfway to Harmony (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 4.01 — 817 ratings — published 2021
Of Street Piemen (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.16 — 465 ratings — published 2015
Spangle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 4.18 — 859 ratings — published 1987
Up, Up in a Balloon: Encouraging a Sense of Wonder (I Wonder Why)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2013
Driftwood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,034 ratings — published 2020
No Buddy Like a Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.96 — 340 ratings — published
Washington Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.95 — 73,285 ratings — published 2018
Bear Is Not Sleepy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.21 — 48 ratings — published 2018
Up, Up, and Away (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch #28)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.51 — 188 ratings — published 1999
Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.77 — 71,399 ratings — published 2001
The Wooden Spaceships (Land and Overland Series, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.65 — 279 ratings — published 1987
The Ragged Astronauts (Land and Overland, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.70 — 511 ratings — published 1986
Enduring Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.65 — 48,358 ratings — published 1997
Pop Flop's Great Balloon Ride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2005
Tell Me No Lies (Lady Dunbridge Mystery, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hot-air-balloons)
avg rating 3.79 — 823 ratings — published 2019
“Some guns were fired to give notice that the departure of the balloon was near. ... Means were used, I am told, to prevent the great balloon's rising so high as might endanger its bursting. Several bags of sand were taken on board before the cord that held it down was cut, and the whole weight being then too much to be lifted, such a quantity was discharged as would permit its rising slowly. Thus it would sooner arrive at that region where it would be in equilibrio with the surrounding air, and by discharging more sand afterwards, it might go higher if desired. Between one and two o'clock, all eyes were gratified with seeing it rise majestically from above the trees, and ascend gradually above the buildings, a most beautiful spectacle. When it was about two hundred feet high, the brave adventurers held out and waved a little white pennant, on both sides of their car, to salute the spectators, who returned loud claps of applause. The wind was very little, so that the object though moving to the northward, continued long in view; and it was a great while before the admiring people began to disperse. The persons embarked were Mr. Charles, professor of experimental philosophy, and a zealous promoter of that science; and one of the Messrs Robert, the very ingenious constructors of the machine.
{While U.S. ambassador to France, writing about witnessing, from his carriage outside the garden of Tuileries, Paris, the first manned balloon ascent using hydrogen gas by Jacques Charles on the afternoon of 1 Dec 1783. A few days earlier, he had watched the first manned ascent in Montgolfier's hot-air balloon, on 21 Nov 1783.}”
― Writings: The Autobiography / Poor Richard’s Almanack / Bagatelles, Pamphlets, Essays & Letters
{While U.S. ambassador to France, writing about witnessing, from his carriage outside the garden of Tuileries, Paris, the first manned balloon ascent using hydrogen gas by Jacques Charles on the afternoon of 1 Dec 1783. A few days earlier, he had watched the first manned ascent in Montgolfier's hot-air balloon, on 21 Nov 1783.}”
― Writings: The Autobiography / Poor Richard’s Almanack / Bagatelles, Pamphlets, Essays & Letters
“If we feel uncomfortable with the harrowing ugliness in the world and the infuriating violence in our environs, we must not wait to speak out loud, louder, and louder until the hot-air balloon of indifference and intolerance finally blast into pieces. (“Not without the past”)”
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