Book Bale Bundle--What a Great Deal!

  

I stumbled upon the bookbale bundle when I was looking up Mercedes Lackey's website to include in a review of one of her books.  I checked it out and was duly impressed.

Select any price (minimum $2.99) for all six books listed as the regular bundle. Pay at least $10.00 and get TWO BONUS BOOKS by two acknowledged literary masters in addition to the regular bundle.  In the November Bundle in addition to Elvenbane, you would have gotten The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, Climbing Olympus by Kevin J. Anderson, Birthright: The Book of Man by Mike Resnick, Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer and Future Perfect by Nancy Kress. Pay at least $10 and you would have gotten the two bonus books - The Hemmingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman and Take Back Your Goverment by Robert Heinlein.

This appears to be a way for well known authors to cash in on the eBook craze and still provide titles at a very, very reasonable price.  Check it out! 

  http://www.bookbale.com/This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.

The Mushroom Planet Series by Eleanor Cameron

My first love in books is Science Fiction/Fantasy. I love to read and will read a phone book if nothing else is available. However good planning generally makes that unnecessary. A book in each room you frequent, one in the car and your PDA loaded with Baen Free Book downloads means you seldom need to read phone books. The first book I can recollect reading,that was definitively Science Fiction was “The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet”. Tyco M. Bass was a scientist who had wonderful adventures. For some reason I remember “Mr. Bass’s Planetoid” as my favorite of the Mushroom Planet series.

I was impressed enough with the series that when I was a 5th grade teacher 14 years later I read it to my students. They too, seemed to derive a great deal of pleasure out of the series. The series appears to be still in print and available several places. A good site to find the series is:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/eleanor-cameron/

If you want a great introduction to the genre for your children, this is a terrific series to start their adventure.

Nice review of “The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet”. http://www.geocities.com/nodotus/hbreview5.html

Good overview of the author and the series.
http://oldchildrensbooks.com/cameron.php