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Summary: It has captured the imagination of children for decades!
Review: I cannot add much to the other reviews except to urge those who love this series to contact Little Brown and Company, the publishers, to ask them to reprint them WITH ILLUSTRATIONS!! I suggested the first two be offered for Christmas as a set. The toll free number is 1-800-759-0190.
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Summary: One of the Best Children's Science fiction books ever
Review: This is an excellent piece of work. I first read this book and the others and fell in love with the series. Sadly, the series ended with a bad point but was still an excellent book. Even if you have a limited imagination yours will come alive.
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Summary: An excellent science fiction piece for younger readers
Review: Chuck and David are the lucky boys who stumble upon a chance to visit a previously unknown planetoid and do a great service to its inhabitants. The story is an excellent piece of science fiction, offering plausible explanations of the hows and whys of the boys' space travel, as well as a wonderful adventure story. It will capture the imaginations of young readers and might be especially suited for young boys (although girls will like it too). The story ends too soon, but fortunately there are sequels!
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Summary: A long-lost treasure regained: sans-drawings...
Review: I read this and other Mushroom Planet books as a child. I had forgotten the titles until a couple of years ago when I discovered the book during a Parent's Night at my son's elementary school. I read the book to my son who was 6 at the time. One thing I noticed is that the author's sentence constructions are particularly difficult to read aloud. The current published versions claim Robert Henneberger as the illustrator, but none of the in-print versions (that I can find) are illustrated! This is especially sad, as the drawings of the spaceship, Mr. Bass, and his laboratory were a lot of the appeal to me as a child.
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Summary: Basidium is a wonderful destination!
Review: This was my first science fiction "read" as a youngster, and I later was to enjoy it on my own and with my students. The skillful science fiction crafting, intriguing character of Mr Bass, painless integration of "space facts", and keen recognition, on the part of the boy travellers, of how commercialism would destroy Basidium all are delightful. The only reason that I give this work 4 stars rather than 5 is that the ending was not only anti-climactic but contradicted the original explanations by Mr Bass. It killed a good part of the premise and was too contrived - did not continue the originally established premise and otherwise believable depictions.
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Summary: good book for child of any generation
Review: I read this book in the summer of 1958 as a child in bed with chiken pox ...it made a huge impact on me...I am now a 48 yr old airline pilot and think the Mushroom Planet books are partely responsible for having this job.....when I fly red-eyes late at night, I sometimes look up just to see if I can find the Mushroom Planet... I will never stop searching...who knows...maybe I will see it some day. This series of Mushroom Planet books are absolutely timeless and would recomend them to a child of any generation...I will never forget it...
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Summary: You will read it again and again.
Review: This book introduced me to science fiction in the 1950's. I found a full set of the series in hardback in the '70s and bought them all. I read this one about every 3 or 4 years and plan to do so for the rest of my life.
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Summary: First Sci-Fi Book I Ever Read -- And STILL Marvelous Today!
Review: This wasn't the first science-fiction STORY I ever read (that honor goes to "The Magic Boomerang" in a school reading textbook), but it is certainly the first sci-fi BOOK I ever read. It is whimsical, imaginative, and engaging. A must-read! Hail, Mebe! Hail, Oru! Up with King Ta!!!
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Summary: A childhood classic!
Review: I borrowed this book from the library when I was 8 years old and loved reading it! I've been looking for it for almost 40 years, and I'm delighted to have found it again. Imagine 40 years of walking into book stores and saying "Um, well, I don't remember who wrote it, but do you have any children's books about a "mushroom planet?" 40 years of blank stares! I KNEW I hadn't imagined this book! I've ordered it and can hardly wait to read it again.
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Summary: Great children's book.
Review: I read this as an eight year old and never forgot it. It was just as delightful over forty years later. I plan to read it to my grandchildren, and I hope they enjoy it as much as I did.
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