Danny Dunn Invisible Boy [Paperback]

Jay Williams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1983

By accidentally short-circuiting Professor Bullfinch's new crystalline material, Danny Dunn enables the professor to create a new machine that makes Danny invisible.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Simon Pulse (August 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671450689
• ISBN-13: 978-0671450687
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,991,024 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ditto the last comments. Highly visionary., February 5, 2001

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"outerperimeter" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Danny Dunn,the Invisible Boy (Hardcover)

I'm shocked these books are out of print. I totally enjoyed them and I think I read every one. This book especially was practically prophetic from the standpoint of what the military is currently working on. Consider the year written, and it is quite remarkable.

I would highly recommend this book for young kids interested in imaginative inventions. "Creative inventors", so to speak.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I think this might be my favorite Danny Dunn book., January 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Danny Dunn Invisible Boy (Paperback)

Danny, loooooooong preceeding "Neuromancer", dons a helmet and gloves which give him sensations from an outside source--in this case, a mechanical dragonfly. He uses this technology to his own ends, of course. Prescient sci-fi from the team of Williams and Abraskin.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Once it inspired me to science, now it's dated., March 17, 2009

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B. Wolinsky "Ben's Reviews" (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Danny Dunn Invisible Boy (Paperback)

I read these back in 1987, when I was in 4th grade. The Danny Dunn series hasn't been reprinted in years, and has been forgotten, except to those who read the books.
I wonder if any kids would read them if they were re-issued? The series stopped in the early 1980's, before personal computers, cell phones, the internet, digital cameras, etc. Would the story be anything more than a look back at a bygone era?
Perhaps this book is good for teaching history. The Danny Dunn series was the product of the science-mania that began when the USSR launched Sputnik in 1959. Every product of the Cold War has pretty much been scrapped, but there must be some use for this. These books made kids appreciate the value of science.