They spend hours in David’s backyard, collecting materials from both their houses, revising David’s plans and adding some of Chuck’s suggestions. Is there enough time? Was the advertisement seen by the right boy?ĭavid runs into a few problems building the rocket, so he brings in his friend Chuck to help. Between the planning, he keeps consulting his notebook entitled A Few Facts Concerning the Hiterto Undiscovered Satellite, Basidium-X as he’s researching. Plans for rocket fuel and an invisible skin to protect a rocket from space. It’s beautiful, and he thinks it should be fairly easy to make.Īcross town on a street that (according to David’s father) doesn’t exist, Mr. He spends the next day working on plans, and designs a slender, pointed rocket, with one window in the front and a door on the side, with flukes to keep it running straight. Bass, 5 Thallo Street, Pacific Grove, California.ĭavid’s father is convinced that the ad is some kind of joke, but David wants to believe it’s true. Please bring your ship as soon as possible to Mr. An adventure and a chance to do a good deed await the boys who build the best space ship. No adult should be consulted as to its plan or method of construction. The ship should be sturdy and well made, and should be of materials found at hand.
Wanted: A small space ship about eight feet long, built by a boy, or by two boys, between the ages of eight and eleven. What is that book? The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, by Eleanor Cameron.ĭavid was planning for an uneventful summer when his father pointed out a small advertisement in the evening paper: Even though the science is a little behind the current times, and the aliens aren’t carrying death rays or covered in fur, it’s still a well-loved reading experience. Part of it is because science fiction is mostly looking forward, not looking back.Īnd yet, there is one science fiction book that still is on almost every library’s shelves. Part of it is because science is always evolving, and books stay in the time they were written.
Some of that is because technology has developed so quickly in the past decades, so stories that seemed cutting edge when they were written are now dated. Who doesn’t love rockets blasting off, robots saving the world, and aliens coming to Earth? And yet, there are very few classic children’s science fiction titles.
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