Hi! I’m looking for a children’s book – LIkely from mid to late 80’s. It was hard cover with beautiful full page illustrations. It was something about a boy who built a spaceship out of garbage – I remember a barrel being the fusalage – there was also a monster that was built out of garbage.
Could this be one of the mushroom planet books by Eleanor Cameron? In the first book, two boys build a homemade spaceship. Here’s a list of the titles and dates of this series: The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (1954), Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet (1956), Mr. Bass’s Planetoid (1958), A Mystery for Mr. Bass (1960), Jewels from the Moon and the Meteor That Couldn’t Stay (1964), Time and Mr. Bass (1967).