The science is dated, much like it is in The Space ship Under the Apple Tree and The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet. And while this farm woman may not know much about being an astronaut, she’s willing to learn and adapt. She inadvertently gets added to the crew instead of the last scientist (who has difficulty with addresses). In this first adventure, Miss Pickerell discovers government men readying to send up a rocket from her homestead. But that was before I discovered the undaunted and determined Miss Pickerell. Honestly, if someone had told me that there was a series of science fiction books for kids where the main protagonist was an older single woman (back in the day, a spinster) who lived on a farm, I’d probably have thought someone was playing a bit of a joke. And let’s just say I’m a little gobsmacked. Miss Pickerell Goes to Marsby Ellen MacGregor, illustrated by Paul Galdone (McGraw-Hill Companies, 1951)Ī few years ago I delved into 1950s science fiction for kids and this particular series fell out of the internet jumble and into my lap. She expanded it to book length, published in 1951 as Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, a science fiction novel for children.You’re an older woman who loves the simple, quiet life on the farm, but when a group of men decide to use your farmlands as their launchpad for their rocket to Mars, you’ll wind up going along and taking no nonsense from anyone. The first appearance of Miss Pickerell, her famous and quirky major character was in a short story, Swept Her into Space, published in Liberty in 1950.
MacGregor's goal was to provide fantasy literature with correct (for the time) scientific facts that would appeal to children.
After a varied career in numerous libraries and publishing several well-received children's books, as well as numerous magazine articles, she died in 1954 at the age of 47. Ellen MacGregor (1906 - 1954) was an American author, primarily of children's literature. She expanded it to book length, published in 1951 as Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, a science fiction novel for children.
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