Who Wrote MUSHROOM PLANET Books?
Joseph L Lockett
TO THE WONDERFUL MUSHROOM PLANET, or some close variant of that title. Does
anyone know the author, and whether they're still in print?
The plots involved some young boys whose friend Mr. Basidium discovered a
tiny satellite of Earth on which the Mushroom People lived. I can't
remember what the literary quality was like, but I was quite taken with
them at the age at which I read them.... :-)
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Gary Lee Phillips
and Return to the Mushroom Planet are the first two titles.
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Alayne McGregor
In a previous article, jloc...@owlnet.rice.edu (Joseph L Lockett) says:
>I remember from my youth reading a series of books beginning with THE VOYAGE
>TO THE WONDERFUL MUSHROOM PLANET, or some close variant of that title. Does
>anyone know the author, and whether they're still in print?
Eleanor Cameron.
I've seen other of her books in print, but I'm not sure if I've seen the
MP books recently.
However, they should be in your local library.
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AaronShep
Lockett) writes:
I remember from my youth reading a series of books beginning with THE
VOYAGE TO THE WONDERFUL MUSHROOM PLANET
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By the way, Eleanor Cameron set these books in Pacific Grove, CA. When I
visited there recently, a children's bookstore owner told me she still
lives there--alive and kicking!
Aaron Shepard
Michael Oltz
Eleanor Cameron (who has been in recent years on the
editorial advisory board of Cricket magazine). They were
recently reprinted without the original illustrations, chiefly
because the spaceship looked like a V2 with a cockpit in
it. Originally published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston.
(By the way, "Basidium" was the name of the planet)
Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet -- 1952
David Topman finds an ad in the newspaper: WANTED:
a boy or two boys to build a spaceship. An adventure
and a chance to do a good deed await -- Tyco M. Bass,
5 Thallo Street, Pacific Grove, California.
Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet -- 1956
When Tyco Bass's cousin Theo shows up, he helps the
boys build a new spaceship...but it seems heavier than
it ought to be when they are preparing it for launch...
Mr. Bass's Planetoid -- 1958
Mr Bass's friend, inventor Prewytt Brumblydge, has
invented a new device to desalinate sea water cheaply,
making it possible to put much more land under cultivation
worldwide. Although Prewytt's fellow scientists advise
him that testing the device would be very dangerous, he
suddenly disappears, taking the machine with him. Can
the boys find him before it is too late?
A Mystery for Mr. Bass -- 1960
The boys find some old humanoid bones, but paleontologists
soon find out that "Pacific Grove Man" is not what he seems to be...
Time and Mr. Bass -- 1965
A trusted friend of Mr. Bass's ancestral family in Wales has
stolen an heirloom: the Necklace of Ta, king of the Mushroom
Planet, and has fallen under its curse.
P.S., the series never did settle the question of which
makes the better rocket fuel:
atomic tritetramethylbenzacarbonethylene
or
brumblic pentathermonuclearcosmicdiheliumite
Janet Kaul
I believe the author's last name is Cameron. I loved that book too. There's
also Return to the Mushroom Planet, but it's not quite as good.
Janet
MelRose533
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet was written by Eleanor
Cameron. The copyright is 1954,with an edition published in 1966 by
Scholastic Magazines, Inc. I got the book through Scholastic Book Services
at my elementary school about then, when I was ten. I loved it then and I
still have it. I've read it several times since, as I do with all my
favorite childhood classics, and it's still pretty good reading, but not
the same as when I was ten. I don't know if i'ts still in print. I hope
this helps, and that you can find a copy somewhere.
Elliott Swanson
BTW, there are a number of sequels...
MelRose533 (melro...@aol.com) wrote:
: In article <33enkb$f...@larry.rice.edu>, jloc...@owlnet.rice.edu (Joseph L