Stowaway TO THE MUSHROOM PLANET

Publication: 1956, Atlantic, Little & Brown

Original price: $2.75

Original Title:​ Stowaway In Space

Cover and illustrations: Robert Henneberger

From the flap:

"Does anyone but Chuck Masterson and David Topman and Mr. Bass know about the Mushroom Planet? Well, there's Mr. Tyco Bass's cousin, Mr. Theo. He is a Mushroom Person, like Mr. Tyco, so he knows. And of course David and Chuck told their families about The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (along with a good many thousands of readers).

But what if just an ordinary human being should happen to find out about it? Would it ruin everything? The answer is in this second story about Basidium, the small planet which can only be seen when Tyco Bass's special filter is affixed to the telescope.

David and Chuck returning to Basidium in their new space ship, have considerable difficulty carrying out Mr. Bass's wish that the planet be kept a dead secret. One Horatio Q. Peabody makes this trip even more of an adventure than the first one."

Other Editions:

• Regresso Al Planeta De Los Hongos (Spanish translation by Lisardo Alsono), Editorial Acme, Coleccion Robin Hood #178, circa 1972, illustrations by Ernesto R. Garcia

• Scholastic paperback, circa mid-1970s

• Joy Street / Little, Brown paperback, $4.95, 1988, cover by Peter Sis

• Little, Brown, $5.99, 1998, cover by Kevin Hawkes

• Little, Brown, $7.99, 2003, cover by Steve Vance