What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet
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SOLVED. Children’s Science Fiction. Young boy is contacted by a small man, builds a space ship, goes to small planet to help a dying race. Read in 1950's. Spoiler.
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Apr 05, 2025 05:49PM
Read in the fifties. Young boy is contacted by a small man named “Tyco Brahay” I think. He builds a space ship, goes to a small planet and saves the dying race of Mr Brahays people because they need sulfur. They get chickens who lay eggs and supply the mineral. I think it won an award.
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A query like this appears on SF Stack Exchange:https://scifi.stackexchange.com/quest...
One of the suggested answers is The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, by Eleanor Cameron. It dates from 1954, so is in the right era. The description mentions chickens, eggs and sulphur, but not a character called 'Tyco Brahay' (Tycho Brahe?).
If this is not it, this is the first of a series of 6 books, so the others may be worth investigating.
Another poster on SF Stack Exchange suggested it could be one of the Tom Swift series, but didn't elaborate.
