On a Mushroom Day
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Take a magical walk through the forest and learn all about the wild beauty and wonder of mushrooms on this inspiring picture book journey!
A mushroom day is a day of exploring together and discovering some of the most incredible lifeforms on earth: fungi. In this lyrical, informational picture book structured around a walk through a summertime wood, a child and their caregiver share the sights, sounds and smells of the forest as they observe and identify different varieties of mushrooms. On a Mushroom Day encourages curiosity and a love of fungi in young children and normalizes safe, chaperoned and joyful exploration of the fungal queendom all around us. Filled with fun, fascinating fungi facts and a visual catalogue of mushroom species so that kids can enjoy their very own mushroom day in the pages of this book!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this introduction to the joys of mushrooming, debut author Baker uses direct address to take readers into the forest, whose floor "springs a little under your footsteps." Rich multimedia spreads in sylvan greens and browns by Finkelday (When the Storks Came Home) show two sets of booted feet, transporting readers to uneven ground as a child and caregiver search, smell, and learn. Mushrooms are the fruit of a fungus, the visible part of underground webs "of finest thread called mycelium" that connect "the trees, feeding the forest and binding us all together." The adult helps the child down from a log as they explore, while illustrations picture each mushroom variety with the objects they're named for: a tiny lion on a lion's mane mushroom, an elf drinking from an elf's cup. Infused with respect for mushrooms and the woods where they grow—"Take your time, and give your attention"—the account supplies as vivid a sense of the work of hunting as it does in describing the discoveries. Back matter offers additional information and useful warnings about identifying mushrooms. Human characters are represented with brown skin. Ages 3–7. Agent (for author and illustrator): Adriann Ranta Zurhellen, Folio Literary.
