Humongous Fungus (Underground and All Around)

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Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Picked this up in the library, very beautiful, lots of illustrations and packed with interesting facts. It is a great book for children who are interested in learning about fungi, or even using it as part of a lesson in the classroom. I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books.

This illustrated early reader novel takes the Super Happy Magic Forest world created by Matty Long in a number of picture books and presents a longer story for slightly older readers.

Fungal stories include the greening of the Earth, when fungi helped plants first grow on land, and the mass destruction of crops through fungal disease. It’s got all the silly humour and fantasy-lite elements of the picture books with a bit more for kids to get their teeth into story-wise: brilliant fun and plenty of laughs. From the villains of the possible extinction of bananas to plastic-eating eco-warriors, there are more than 1.

Alongside graphics which are curious, witty and very entertaining, Matty Long offers a very funny story with such wonderful twists and turns.This particular title is especially noteworthy because mushrooms, fungi, and molds of various kinds are just that- widely varied, and yet ubiquitous. Humongous Fungus will intrigue and amaze young readers, and open their eyes to the fungi thriving all around them.