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Summary: Still one of my favorites
Review: Last year I re-read this book for the first time since 1969. Neil Armstrong went to the moon, but I was going to go to the mushroom planet. I still look through the want ads looking for an ad that will lead me to this type of adventure. It's only slightly better than "The Spaceship Under the Apple Tree."
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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: I read this book way back when I was in grade school and loved it. This book started me on my love of Science Fiction and my only disappointment was when I asked the school librarian if there were sequels and was told I was too old to be reading this book! I can still see the images evoked by the author, of the children walking on a moonlit night in Florida, with the wind blowing through the palm trees. I am now 51
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Summary: Memorable
Review: This book was read to me when I was seven years old, and I never forgot the wonderful impression it made on me. Unfortunately, as an adult (I am now 39), it had lost some of its luster. A second tragedy: My son keeps falling asleep! I still believe in the book and look forward to reading it to my second son.
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Summary: One of my favorite childhood books
Review: I read this book back in the late 1970s when I was in elementary school, and then lost it somewhere (I most likely gave it to a younger cousin or friend). Last year I came across a copy of this and one of the others in the series in a small upstate NY bookshop, and immediatly bought them. I was amazed at how I started reading and was instantly returned to my childhood. Although I have always done this with my childhood books, this one was even more special as I was finding something I thought lost forever. I strongly encourage teachers and others with 3rd-6th grade children to pick this up, as it is a refreshing change from the young adult books that are churned out today with very little thought for quality.
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Summary: My favorite memory from Elementary School
Review: A young boy reads an odd green-colored ad in the local newspaper, and is soon helping a charming, greenish fellow build a spaceship that will carry them to a marvelous little planet, visible only to those who view it through a special filter. I discovered the books about the Mushroom Planet one day in my school library around 1960 or so, and immediately fell in love with the planet and the people. Reading it, you felt that indeed any one of us might one day build a spaceship in our back yard and we too could visit the mushroom planet.
Since that time I've been pleasantly surprised to learn how many of my friends were fans of the books as well- and interestingly, how many women had read the books as little girls. They're a wonderful, gentle and imaginative treat for children.
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Summary: A True Treasure in this day and time
Review: I read the Mushroom planet books 49 years ago as a nine year old avid reader. This is one of the books that started me on my quest to learn everything. If you have a fantasy loving child, this ranks right up there with Harry Potter for delightful reading.(I read all of those too!)
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Summary: It's Midnight....Pre-cisely!
Review: "For a few seconds it was terrifying! Everything seemed to happen at once. First there was the blasting roar, and the boys were flung backward in their seats so violently by the forward impact of the ship that the breath was knocked out of them. At the same time poor Mrs. Pennyfeather lost her wits entirely and squawked and flapped and flew in their faces, beating her wings so wildly that they were completely blinded by her."
If only it were possible to give a book more than five stars. The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet was one of my favorite books as a kid. It tells the story of David Topman and Chuck Masterson, two boys "between the ages of eight and eleven" who, with the help of Mr. Tycho M. Bass, build and pilot a slim, beautiful spaceship to a small (35 miles in diameter) planet named Basidium-X.
My poor words can't begin to express how wonderful is this book. I've read other books I loved as a child - No Flying in the House comes instantly to mind - as an adult and found them a hideous disappointment. But The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet still DOES it for me. And that's pretty darn cool. If you're thinking of buying this book for your child....do it. If you loved it as a child yourself, and are wondering if it could possibly hit you as hard decades later....oh YES.
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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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