The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet - by Eleanor Cameron (Paperback)

About the Book

Original publication and copyright date: 1954.

Book Synopsis

Blast off into the unknown with National Book Award winning author Eleanor Cameron in this timeless sci-fi classic about two best friends shooting into space for the adventure of a lifetime.

David Topman never expected a newspaper would change his life. But when he finds an ad asking for a small spaceship built by two young boys to be delivered to a mysterious Mr. Tyco M. Bass, he and his best friend, Chuck, race to complete the request. With a homemade spaceship made out of old tin and scrap wood, the two boys report to the funny-looking Mr. Bass and are assigned a most wonderful and terrifying mission - the kind that can only be completed by a young person with a belief in the impossible and a thirst for the unknown.

The boys are up for a challenge, but are they up for the kind of adventure that will take them out of this world at midnight and back by morning?

About the Author

Mrs. Cameron received both the Commonwealth Club of California Award and an award for her novel, A Spell is Cast. Her book A Room Made of Windows, a story about a girl trying to come to terms with her life, won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award.
All Mrs. Cameron's books blend reality and imagination with a distinction that makes them timeless.