The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet
Front cover of the first edition[1]
AuthorEleanor Cameron
IllustratorRobert Henneberger
Cover artistHenneberger
SeriesMushroom Planet[1]
GenreScience fiction, children's literature
PublisherLittle, Brown and Company (Atlantic Monthly Press)[1]
Publication date
September 1954[1]
Publication placeCanada
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages214
OCLC166449
LC ClassPZ7.C143 Wo[2]
Followed byStowaway to the Mushroom Planet 

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet is a children's science fiction novel written by Eleanor Cameron, illustrated by Robert Henneberger, and published by Little, Brown in 1954. It is set in Pacific Grove, California, and on Basidium, a tiny habitable moon of Earth, invisible from the planet in its orbit 50,000 miles away. The "Mushroom Planet", visited by the protagonists David Topman and Chuck Masterson, is covered in various types of mushrooms and is populated by little green people who are in a state of distress.

The Wonderful Flight was published under the Atlantic Monthly Press imprint of Little, Brown[1] in September 1954, and it received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews.[3] The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet proved very popular, spawning four sequels and two short stories over the following 13 years.

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