Reader's Digest created a series of reading books for elementary school children adapting various stories and illustrating them. This one features a story of the far future, 1999!. I like the illustrated cover painting by Fred Freeman and the "exciting" story about how you could imagine this far future when you grow up.
Arthur C Clarke's "So You're Going to Mars" was adapted for one of these in about 1965/66 - I read it when I was in Grade 4 or 6 (I had the same elementary school teacher both years, so the memories blur somewhat) and it has stuck with me ever since. The illustrations were quite evocative.
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