On 27/11/17 14:04, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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On 27/11/2017 13:53, Bert Coules wrote:

When you say "children's book" what age are you talking about? Very
young? Slightly older? Teenage?

And what sort of publishing date range? I don't recall any plot like you
describe in any of the Eagle annuals 1950 onwards. Can you remember
anything at all about the book - dust jacket, illustrations?

it wasn't an annual it was a book English and hardbacked .....early 60's
........


Murray Leinster perhaps

Not many bristh sf authors doing child stuff.

Lester del ray is another

Try this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Science_Fiction


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