![]() ![]() ![]() Since Star Trek and Star Wars, and with the explosion of the genres of science fiction and fantasy literature, children today are far more sophisticated in taste than we were 50 years ago. It was her first children’s book and it gained such popularity that several sequels about David and his adventures on the Mushroom Planet ensued. This was the world in which Cameron’s eight-year-old son lived in the early 1950’s when he asked his mother to write a space story with himself as the main character. We built rockets in school and the boys became their own living action figures on the playgrounds as astronauts. ![]() I remember the tension-filled moments of NASA’s first blast-offs, and the fearful excitement listening to reports of landings. ![]() Those were the pioneering days in venturing off Planet Earth into the unknown. Today, it’s hard to imagine how obsessed the children of the 1950-1960’s were with space travel. In this case, my destination was The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron (1954). Well, you do if you are me – You pick up a children’s book you’ve never read and go away for a few hours. What do you do when spring’s precocious mood throws winter back in your face? You take a trip to another planet! ![]()
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