Can children’s books be pulpy? Sure, why not?
Ruthven Todd was a Scottish poet who moved to America to make a living as a writer. It paid off. His crime fiction pen name was RT Campbell. He wrote the Space Cat series for under his own name from 1952-1958.
Here are the books in chronological order.
My son loved those books when he was a kid.
I had those books, and Robby the Robot!
Though I don’t recall the amanita. [OK, some of the amanita but not on the book]