The Wonderful Flight 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.
Front cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Eleanor Cameron |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Robert Henneberger |
| Cover artist | Henneberger |
| Country | Canada |
| Series | Mushroom Planet |
| Genre | Science fiction, children's literature |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company (Atlantic Monthly Press) |
Publication date | September 1954 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 214 |
| OCLC | 166449 |
| LC Class | PZ7.C143 Wo |
| Followed by | Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet |
The Wonderful Flight was published under the Atlantic Monthly Press imprint of Little, Brown in September 1954, and it received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet proved very popular, spawning four sequels and two short stories over the following 13 years.