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Mad Scientists' Club Returns To Print
Jill Morgan writes "Hi
I think your readers will enjoy finding out that The Mad Scientists' Club by Bertrand Brinley is coming back in print this September. I saw a reader mention it on your book page at
one of the reviews.
This book was first printed in 1965, featuring six junior genuises whose pranks turn the town of Mammoth Falls upside down! You can read more about our new edition (which features text restored from the original manuscript) at from Purple House Press
" I remember reading these as a kid.
As far as I know, there were only two books published. Each was a collection of stories about some guys who got together to do fun stuff. Like using a canoe to build a lake-monster to scare folks, building a rigid balloon (UFO) and flying it over town by remote control to frighten folks...stuff like that. Very humorous and very well written. The one where they haunted the haunted house was quite good as well.
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I shudder to think what would happen to the MSC if the Chief of Police and Colonel March had "all of the lessons from Columbine" at their disposal. Back then, "boys will be boys" was an actual legal dictum that lawyers could offer to judges and actually get their clients off. These guys were using pyrotechnics in several so-called capers.(They blew up the monster in Strawberry Lake at the end.) They seemed dangerously interested in military surplus. Hacking the radio frequencies was second nature to them. All of these actions are dangerous predictors of future Bad People. I wish the book publishers would start reprinting more books about good children who sit still and devote themselves to watching Disney cartoons. If kids must get off of the couch, they might devote themselves to collecting Disney beanbag dolls or maybe those plastic action figures for Disney characters.