The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet

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Summary: An excellent Blend of Science-Fiction & Fantasy!
Review: Part one of the "Mushroom Planet" series is a terrific book! As a Grade 5 teacher it is always refreshing to discover a story that entertains and incorporates science topics. This is a great book for students in Grades 4 & 5. It draws the reader into the plot by revealing wonderous revelations about the characters and their delema bit by bit, then closing each chapter in anticipation of things to come. An excellent book for reading parent-to-child, parent-with-child, in peer groups, or independently. I will definitely purchase the "Mushroom Planet" series to add to my own children's home library. Good Reading!

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Summary: The Wonderful Flight to Earth
Review: The Wonderful Flight to Earth was written by a Basidiomite author, Eleanor Quazgaaron. It is the mushroom Planet's answer to our mushroom planet books. The Wonderful Flight to Earth is about two Basidiomite girls who hitch a ride on a UFO and persuade its captain to take them to Earth. There, they meet two wise men crying, two guys in President Bush's cabinet. The little mushroom girls save Earth. Not a bad book and widely popular on the mushroom planet.

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Summary: What about the queen of the mushroom planet?
Review: Mushroom Planet books are my favorite books. If a movie is to be made based on the book, the movie will not work unless live actors of extraterrestrial ancestry are allowed to be in the movie. I know that the mushroom planet had a king, but what happened to the queen of the mushroom planet? Then I figured it out: Ta's wife cheated on him. So he had her beheaded.

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Summary: The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet
Review: This book is my all time favorite. I first read it when I was thirteen. I admire Eleanor Cameron because she, besides John Schealer (Zip-Zip and his Flying Saucer), had the courage to write about the Greys. I had a UFO abduction when I was little, the problem was never adressed, nobody talked about it, instead they buried my trauma. Books about the Greys were more or less banned, the First Amendment was not honored until Eleanor Cameron came along. I spent my whole childhood searching for a book written about the little Greys, years in vain, until I came upon the mushroom planet book. Granted, the book was disguised as a children's book when it was meant for adults. The characters were changed to green when they were originally grey. My guardians considered the book to close to the truth. I was rediculed when I was caught reading it, told many times I was a thirteen and too old to read this "baby stuff." Well, Greys are not baby stuff. This may sound a bit strange, but mushroom people are real, Eleanor Cameron was writing about a real people disguised as fiction. The book was published seven years after Roswell.Anyway, I give this book five stars, but with all due respect to Eleanor Cameron, the Greys may not like the book because: The book portrays Greys as naive and childlike and the Greys aren't like that at all. True, they resemble children, but they are quite sophisticated with a highly advanced technology. Also, the real "mushroom people" do no wear robes or capes. Maybe they did a long time ago, but today they were military uniforms or ordinary street clothes like we do. They don't walk around barefoot, they wear shoes. They are not as emotional as Mebe and Oru. Most of them are not like Mr. Bass, they are mostly odinary people. They do not eat mushrooms. They don't call themselves mushroom people. Basidium exists, although it is called by another name and it is not in our solar system, but in the star system of Zeta Reticuli 1. It is not 36 miles in diameter, it is much larger, about the size of Earth. The giant mushroom trees Mrs. Cameron referred to probably are symbolic for giant mushroom clouds produced when that world was in an atomic war centuries ago in which the Greys suffered genetic damage and for a while,their speices were threatened with incurable genetic diseases. I suspect Eleanor Cameron knew about this, but was afraid to talk too much. Mebe, I think was based on a real person called Ebe, who died from unknown causes on June 18, 1952in Los Alamos. Eleanor Cameron died in 1996, so she is not going to write any more mushroom planet books. That is very sad, but on a happier note, I sort of continued where Mrs. Cameron left off. I wrote three novels about the Greys. I was told to use my own characteers and not hers, but the Greys are part of the public domain and Eleanor Cameron really did not create the mushroom people, they existed a long time before she wasborn and are part of the public domain. Although I own the rights to the books, I have not gotten them published yet, but stay tuned for "The Chesapeake Bay Retrieval," "My World is Dying!" "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater," and the dog story "King Chesabar." Since all these novels are about Greys, they are technically mushroom people, although mushrooms are not mentioned in my books.

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Summary: The Wonderful Flight To The Mushroom Planet
Review: The Wonderful Flight To the Mushroom Planet is a great book. This book is full of fun and excitement. In the book 2 boys go on a space adventure for an elderly man to a secret satelite called Basdem X. To see if there were any things on the satlite. To find out if there are any creatures on the satelite read the Wonderful Flight To The Mushroom Planet. I realy recomend this book to anyone who likes adventure books.

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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: About the only thing I can remember from second grade, back in '61 or '62, is that I read The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet--repeatedly--and loved it. I always wished that I too could meet Mr. Tyco M. Bass. It never occurred to me at the time that I would have been prevented from doing so because I was a girl. As I recall, the little green ad that David's father found in the Pacific Grove newspaper was an invitation to a boy or boys to go on an adventure and do a good deed. But this didn't stop me from being enthralled with the book, with Mr. Bass, Mr. Bass's observatory, telescopes, filters, workshop, the Mushroom Planet, David & Chuck's spaceship, Mr. Bass's rocket fuel formula, or David's humble spur-of-the-moment mascot, Mrs. Pennyfeather (I believe that was her name).

A great book to read if you are eight! Also great if you are 48!

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Summary: One of my childhood favorites.
Review: This book was one of my favorites as a girl. It is the story of two boys and their adventures on a secret invisible planet that only they can reach with the rocket they build and with the help of the strange and wonderful Mr. Bass. This is probably the first science fiction book that I read and I've been devouring the genre ever since. I've been looking for the book for years and I can't wait for my daughter to be ready to read it. A great book for kids of all ages.

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Summary: Over and Over
Review: I loved this book sooooo much. My older brother had read it so I ended up readind it too when I was old enough. Right now I am doing a book project on it for school to tell my friends about it. I've read this so many times I practiccally have it memorized. For my report I built a model of the ship and wrote a description of it too. I covered the entire thing in tin foil for the effect and painted the fins at the bottom red.

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Summary: Five stars for memorability
Review: This was the first book I remember reading start to finish, all on my own. I seem to recall not wanting to turn out the lights, not wanting to stop for even a minute, and reading at a speed that astonished even me.

It is probably the book most responsible for turning me into a voracious reader. I went from picking at words to gulping them down in huge eyefulls.

How does it hold up, more than 30 years later? I'm going to have to grab a copy to read to my kids, and then we'll see.

Marc Laidlaw Redmond, Washington

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Summary: The Mushroom Planet
Review: Just on a fluke, I looked this series up on the Internet. I had remembered these books and was beginning to think they were a dream or something I had conjured up as I couldn't find them anywhere at our local libraries. I too loved them as a child and used to turn my doll cradle updside down and use it as a space ship so that I could join the book characters on their trips. I was really glad to know I wasn't crazy and that these stories did, and still do, exist. They are a great set of books for a young child.