Matt Kingston 🎯 @hitormiss.org · Jun 28 What's a book—or series of books—that you loved as a kid that almost nobody seems to read or even remember nowadays? THE WONDERFUL FLIGHT TO THE MUSHROOM PLANET, a 1954 children's novel (and sequels) by Eleanor Cameron. These were probably the first sci-fi I checked out from my local library
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Gold in the Sky by Alan Edward Nourse gutenberg.org/ebooks/23882 Alan Edward Nourse gutenberg.org/ebooks/49531 Star Surgeon by Alan Edward Nourse gutenberg.org/ebooks/18492
Runners up include the THREE INVESTIGATORS series and the works of John Bellairs (and the Edward Gorey illustrations)
I have a hazy memory of the two boys’ friendship and apparently I’m not the only person to have read something into it?… everydayheterosexism.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-wonderful-flight-to-mushroom-planet.html?m=1
I loved that book as a kid