Cameron, E., & Henneberger, R. (1954). The wonderful
flight to the
Mushroom Planet. Boston: Little, Brown.
This science-fiction adventure story is about two boys who
find and ad in the newspaper asking for two young boys to build a spaceship.
They meet the advertiser, a mysterious scientist who send them off into space
with a hen. They
find the mushroom planet and quickly meet some residents of the mushroom
planet, small men with large heads and slightly green skin. They look oddly
similar to the mysterious scientist. They tell the boys that their planet has
had a crisis and that everyone is slowly dying of a mysterious sickness. The
boys meet up with the king of the planet, the Great Ta, and end up solving the
natives' problem, before returning to Earth.
This story would be a fun way to introduce a engineering unit in science. A teacher could have them build their own spaceships.
No comments:
Post a Comment