Jewels from the Moon and The Meteor That Couldn't Stay
By: Eleanor Cameron
Contributors: Vic Dowd illustrator; George Manolakes (editor); Margaret Dordick (editor); Marie Jepson Scian (editor)
Edition: First Edition
Series: Reading Round Table
Publisher: American Book Company
Published: (1965) Copyright 1964, 1965
Place of publication: New York; Cincinnati; Atlanta; Dallas; Millbrae
Language: eng
Format: softback (booklet)
Number of pages: 64
Copyright date: 1964, 1965
Subjects: Science fiction.; Space flight--Juvenile fiction.
First sentence: On that fine Saturday morning David had two impulses which led to one of the strangest adventures he and his friend, Chuck Masterson, had ever had.
Description: Two longer Short Stories that are additions to the Mushroom Planet Series. In the first story David and Chuck go on what is supposed to be a picnic with David's parents, but they decide they would rather explore a beach they are passing in the car. They meet a friend of Mr Bass's who tells them stories and they have an unusual adventure. In the second story David goes looking for Brumblium meteorites with Prewyett Brumblydge and their adventure has an unusual ending. Each story has a series of question following the story.
Notes: These stories are additions to the Mushroom Planet Series that is made up of "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), and "Time and Mr. Bass" (1967). The first story could have happened almost anytime in the storyline, but seems to fit best between books 2 and 3. The second story seems to fit in somewhere between books 3 and 4. These stories could have been written especially for the Reading Round Table books, or may have been material edited out of previous books. The Reading Round Table is a supplemental reading series for schools made up of short booklets. The booklets are grouped into various colored series of different reading levels. This booklet is from the Grey or Silver series. This book has the code "1 3 5 7    CL 8 6 4 2" on the inside of the front cover. I believe that this code with the 1 in the sequence indicates that the book is a first printing.
Table of contents: title: Jewels from the Moon
pagenum: 1; title: questions for Jewels from the Moon - Choose Two, The Curious Trip, Touched in the Head, Paint Pictures with Words
pagenum: 35; title: The Meteor That Couldn't Stay
pagenum: 39; title: questions for The Meteor That Couldn't Stay - What Does it Mean?, Hyphenated Words, Choose The Right Words, That Person at That Moment!
pagenum: 61