Rereading: MR. BASS’S PLANETOID by Eleanor Cameron

The third book in Cameron’s Mushroom Planet series is again filled with fantasy science that I could barely believe as a child, but that’s balanced by an exciting plot and appealing characters.

David and Chuck have barely recovered from their last flight to the Mushroom Planet orbiting Earth but hidden by fog and mist from most observers, when a new problem comes to them. A scientist named Prewytt Brumblydge has discovered some of the same amazing things as the boys’ friend Mr. Bass, and is using them in a dangerous way. His machine, the Brumblitron, set up on a remote island, might cause our entire world to be destroyed. When the boys meet Prewytt they notice he looks like one of the Mushroom People that inhabit the small world of Basidium, but when the scientist and his machine vanishes, they must use their own space ship to try to find him before his experiments doom everyone.

The illustrations by Louis Darling are fine, though he doesn’t have as much to work with here as on “The Enormous Egg” by Oliver Butterworth. Recommended.

Mr Bass’s Planetoid by Eleanor Cameron

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