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Summary: Classic Sci-Fi For The Younger Set
Review: I first read "The Wonderful Flight To The Mushroom Planet" more years ago than I care to remember.
I loved it then and my grandchildren love it now!
This story about 2 ordinary kids who encounter a mysterious scientist and build a spaceship is sure to enchant readers of all ages.
Can David and Chuck save the endangered Musroom Planet?
Will they make it back to Earth?
Just exactly who is Mr. Bass?
You'll just have to read this wonderful book to find out!
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Summary: My all time favorite children's book.
Review: As a fifth grade teacher, books are an important part of my day. One of my most wonderful memories of elementary school is being read a very curious and imaginative book about space travel and little green men by my fourth grade teacher.I was enthralled with a story that detailed the exploits of two boys handpicked for a space adventure to save a dying planet. It was during these read aloud times that I decided I would become a teacher, too. I had forgotten the title and thought of it from time to time over the years. In fact, I had given up hope of remember ing the book's title. One day this summer, I was cleaning out my new classroom and found a dog earred, plastic coated, 1954 hard cover copy of this now out of print book. I recognized the book the moment I saw it and read it in one sitting. I am so thrilled to have it back in my library and plan to share it with this year's class. My class will never believe the connection I have to this book, but one reading and you will understand. Never forget the power of a good story, it can stay with you for years
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Summary: One of the most enjoyable kid's books out there.
Review: The first of Cameron's Mushroom Planet books, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet still casts a spell many years after its first publication. David and Chuck, two best friends, build a rocketship (well, a full-sized model of one) after reading a mysterious newspaper advertisement asking for just such a spaceship and promising "adventure" to the boys who bring the best spaceship to an address that they're not even sure exists. Mystery piles atop mystery and revelation on revelation, until the two boys find themselves on a rescue mission to a tiny, invisible planet orbiting only a short distance (astronomically speaking) from the Earth itself!The writing is smooth, straightforward, and engaging, and Cameron's characters are sketched out with clear and emphatic detail. There is a bizarre, almost dreamlike quality to the book itself, due at least in part to the juxtaposition of a strong and clear respect for and use of scientific approaches and terminology with truly mystical phenomena that cannot be explained by any science known to man. The scientific wizard Mr. Bass -- there's no better way to describe him -- creates inventions that sound scientific, may even BE scientific in a way, and yet his work is surrounded by all the enigmatic atmosphere of the most mysterious sorceror. At the same time, the rescue and its conclusion rest on firm, rational grounds, so that we keep being anchored back to reality. A fascinating book and well worth the read even if -- or perhaps especially if -- you are an adult who is trying to remember why some kids' books still stick with you.
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Summary: If You Read This Book You'll Go Out Of This World!
Review: I read The Wonderful Flight To The Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron. The story takes place in Chuck and Davids home town and on Basidium. Mr. Bass wants two boys, Chuck and David to go help his people.
Chuck and David got Miss Pennyfeather and then left for Basidium. I did like this story because I could not wait to find out what happened next.
Did Chuck and David come back?
Did they save the Mushroom People?
Read the book to find out more about it.
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Summary: A space adventure that inspires dreams
Review: I read this book many times growing up and at the age of twenty seven, can still remember the joy and wonder of discovery. I found the characters delightful and I desperately wished then and now to go to the Mushroom Planet. I think boys and girls of any age would find this a great adventure. The young ones might actually enjoy going to bed for the chance at another installment on the adventures. My library only had the first novel and it was only when I purchased my own copy that I found that there were sequals. I could not find them anywhere until I found them here and I intend to purchase everything Eleanor Cameron wrote, but first all the Mushroom Planet books.
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Summary: A true classic
Review: David and Chuck are just a couple of regular, ordinary, everyday kids, with a regular, ordinary, everyday chicken, named Mrs. Pennyfeather. One day they happen to answer a regular, ordinary, everyday newspaper ad. Suddenly they find themselves blasting off in a tiny spaceship, headed for a tiny planet that a local astronomer has just discovered! Before they know it, they are on a mission to save the tiny Mushroom Planet from a terrible fate. All they have to depend upon are their wits, the astronomer's mysterious advice, their own love of science -- and their regular, ordinary, everyday chicken, Mrs. Pennyfeather. What will become of them? What will become of the chicken? What will become of the inhabitants of the little planet, the Mushroom People? I remember first reading this story, in about third grade. Eleanor Cameron makes the story so interesting, and so fun, I didn't even want to go to sleep until I had finished the book. After I finished it, I couldn't decide which was more interesting to me: reading, or doing science. Just remember -- if the kids didn't know their science, the story wouldn't have a happy ending! That's all I'll say here. I don't want to spoil the book for anyone. This happens to be a really good time to be reading this neat little book. Did you know that real astronomers recently discovered something new in our solar system? They can't decide if they should call it a planet or not. Would you like to learn more about it? See if you can use the Internet to learn about the word "Quaoar," which is what astronomers are calling the object. Or, you could ask your science teacher about it. Who knows -- maybe we'll even find some mutant mushrooms up there, someday! I would like to recommend another astronomy book that I loved in third grade. It's called "Powers of Ten," by Philip Morrison. I haven't been in third grade for quite awhile, but I STILL love that book. Please take 2 minutes and see if you can find it on Amazon.com -- I bet you'll love it. Anyway -- "The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet" is amazing. Two thumbs up!
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Summary: Revisit an innocent childhood! First Sci Fi Read as a child!
Review: This wonderful book has touched people from every corner of the planet! I live in Australia, and I vividly remember, this was the first book I ever bought for, and by, myself, in a primary school book club. It is this book which shaped my love of reading, and awakened in me a sense of wonder, of anything being possible, I was 9 years old when I read it. It is written in such a way as to be perfectly understandable to young children, and reading the online exerpts.. it is as exciting, innocent, and fresh today, as it was some 22 years ago, when I first read it! And now that I have found it again, after searching for so many years, it will be a great priviledge to buy it, and read it to my children, and help to awaken their sense of wonder! If you want to encourage your child to read, and make their imagination bloom.. then do them a favor, and buy this book!
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Summary: Blast Off Into This Good Book
Review: The book I read was The Wonderful flight to the Mushroom Planet. Most of the story takes place on the planet Basidium. Two boys, Chuck and David, answer an ad to save the people on Basidium. Do they figure out the problem and save them? Read to find out!
I liked this book because of how it explained things so well. It gave very good descriptions.
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Summary: Fine - (for most people
Review: I read a book called The Mushroom Planet, by Eleanor Cameron. It takes place in the city and on the planet. Two boys named Chuck and David go to a planet. They are supposed to save the planet from starvation and sickness. But did they save it? Read to find out! I liked it because it is adventurous.
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Summary: This Book Is Out Of This World!
Review: I read the Wonderful Fight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron. It takes place in Chuck and David hometown and on Basidium. This is a book about 2 boys, David and Chuck. David finds an ad in the newspaper looking for a ship and 2 kids. They make a ship and they fly to Basidium. They bring along Mrs. Pennyfeather. She is a chicken. I liked this book because it interesting. Do they return? Read to find out!
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