Let the Balloon Go
Ivan Southall
Paperback
(Egmont Childrens Books, Aug. 2, 1990)
John Sumner is a spastic, whose over-anxious mother never allows him to take risks. Left alone for the first time, he plans a feat that would tax the endurance of any boy. The author is a winner of the Carnegie Medal and has four times won the Australian Children's Book of the Year Award.