They were suffering from some deficiency. Looking back on it now, the detail I remember is that the Mushroom People were sick for some reason. Well, once I got past the first chapter or two, it would have taken pliers to get that book out of my little hands. For the odd little Mr Bass is in fact related to the people on Basidium. He invites the boys to go visit this moon Basidium in a spaceship they themselves have built and which he modifies to make spaceworthy. He has discovered that Earth has a second, invisible moon which he calls Basidium and which can only be seen by a special filter he himself has invented. Two reasonably sharp but not precocious boys meet a strange old geezer named Tyco Bass. As I recall, it was a pleasant science fiction adventure meant for kids with wild imaginations (just right for me at ten). I haven't skimmed through it since finding this copy, but sooner or later I am bound to pick it up and dive in. THE WONDERFUL FLIGHT TO THE MUSHROOM PLANET was from 1954, the first of a series by Eleanor Camron. (Used book store owners cackle and rub their hands together when they see me come in). This is one I bought from the school's library, read and re-read and then forgot about until a few years ago when I found a copy in a used book store. Probably I have mentioned it before, but by the fifth or sixth grade, I was going through books the way army ants go through foliage.
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