About the Author

(1912-1996) Eleanor Cameron is a distinguished author and critic, best known for her juvenile fantasy Mushroom Planet Series. She won the National Book Award for The Court of the Stone Children.

Loganberry Legacy

Here's a popular science-fiction series, with a couple recently back in print, and the rest of them elusive and difficult to find… Ah what a teaser, why don't they just reprint the whole series? But they haven't, and so the demand for the ones which remain out-of-print continues.

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Mushroom Planet Bibliography (in sequence)

* designates a title still in print

  • * The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. Little, Brown, 1954, 1988.
  • Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet. Illustrated by Robert Henneberger. Little, Brown, 1956, 1988.
  • Mr. Bass's Planetoid. Illustrated by Louis Darling. Little, Brown, 1958.
  • A Mystery for Mr. Bass. Illustrated by Leonard Shortall. Little, Brown, 1960.
  • Time and Mr. Bass. Illustrated by Fred Meise. Little, Brown, 1967.

Julia Redfern Bibliography (in sequence)

  • * A Room Made of Windows. Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. Little, Brown, 1971.
  • Julia and the Hand of God. Illustrated by Gail Owens EP Dutton, 1977.
  • That Julia Redfern. Illustrated by Gail Owens. EP Dutton, 1982.
  • Julia's Magic. Illustrated by Gail Owens EP Dutton, New York, 1984.
  • The Private World of Julia Redfern. Illustrated by Gail Owens. EP Dutton, 1989.

Other Children's books Bibliography

  • The Beast with the Magical Horn. Illustrated by Joe and Beth Krush. Little, Brown and Company, 1963.
  • Beyond Silence. Dell, 1980.
  • * The Court of the Stone Children. EP Dutton, 1973, 1990.
  • The Mysterious Christmas Shell. Little, Brown 1961
  • * A Spell is Cast. Illustrated by Joe and Beth Krush. Little, Brown, 1964 and Peter Smith, 1991.
  • The Terrible Churnadryne. Illustrated by Joe and Beth Krush. Little Brown, 1959.
  • To the Green Mountains. Illustrated by James Barkley. EP Dutton, 1975.

Grown-up Bibliography

  • * The Green and Burning Tree. On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books. 1969.
  • The Seed and the Vision. On the Writing and Appreciation of Children's Books. 1993.
  • The Unheard Music. A novel. 1950.

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