References For Teaching About Fungi

a. Juvenile Non-Fiction

• Arnold, Katya and Swope, Sam. Katya's Book of Mushrooms, Henry Holt and Co., Inc., New York, NY, 1997
• Arora, David and Bowers, Jeannette, Mushrooms of the World Coloring Book, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1984
• Conklin, Gladys, Fairy Rings and Other Mushrooms, Holiday House, New York, NY, 1983
• Delafosse, Claude, and Heliadore, Le champignon, (in French), Editions Gallimard Jeunesse, Paris, France, 1995
• Heller, Ruth, Plants that Never Bloom, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, NY, 1984
• Johnson, Sylvia, Mushrooms, Lerner Publishing Company, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, 1982
• Kaveler, Lucy, The Wonders of Fungi, John Day Co., New York, NY, 1964
• Kendrick, Bryce, A Young Person's Guide to the Fungi, Mycologue Publications, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1986
• Perry, Phyllis, J., Let's Learn About Mushrooms, Harvey House, New York, NY, 1974
• Selsam, Millicent, Mushrooms, William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1986
• Tesar, Jenny, Fungi, Our Living World Series, Blackbirch Press, Inc. Woodbridge, CT, 1994
• Watts, Barrie, Mushroom, Silver Burdett Co., 1986
• Webster, Vera R., Plant Experiments, Childrens Press, Chicago, 1982
• Allen, Berg, Dusheck,Taylor, Microorganisms, Fungi, and Plants
  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York,NY, 2002 (Three textbooks: Annotated Teacher's Edition, Teaching Resources, and Assessment Item Listing)
• Assinder, Sue, Rutter, Gordon, How the Mushroom Got its Spots, An Explainers' Guide to Fungi
  British Mycological Society Education Group, Royal Botanic gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE UK and The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Polaris House,Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 1UH UK, 2002

b. Juvenile Fiction

• Barklem, Jill, Autumn Story, Philomel Books, Putnam Publishing Group, New York, NY, 1980
• Bodecker, N.M., The Mushroom Center Disaster, 1974
• Cameron, Eleanor, Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet, Little Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1956
• Cameron, Eleanor, Mr. Bass's Planetoid, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA
• Cameron, Eleanor, A Mystery for Mr. Bass, Little, Brown and Company,Boston, MA
• Cameron, Eleanor, Time and Mr. Bass, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA
• Cameron, Eleanor, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, Little Brown and Co., Boston, MA, 1988
• Dorros, Arthur, The Fungus That Ate My School, Scholastic Press, New York,NY, 2000
• Ginsburg, Mirra, Mushrooms in the Rain, Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, NY, 1974
• Krahn, Fernando, Sebastian and the Mushroom, Delacorte Press, 1976
• Monsell, Mary Elise, Crackle Creek, Atheneum, New York, NY, 1990
• Moore, Inga, The Truffle Hunter, Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Brooklyn, NY, 1987
• Romanova, Natalia, Once There Was a Tree, Dial Books, New York, NY, 1985
• Seymour, Miranda, Casper and the Secret Kingdom, Silver Burdett Co., 1987
• Hadley, Maggie, Fungus Fred Goes Foraying
  British Mycological Society,Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE UK, 2002
• Beskow, Elsa, Children of the Forest, Floris Books, 15 Harrison Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005
• Aesop Fable, Tharlet, Eve, The Grasshopper and the Ants, Silver Burdett Co., Morristown, NJ, 1985
• Helquist, Brett, The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Book 11) by Lemony Snicket, Harper Collins, New York, 2004

c. Reference Books on Fungi

• Arora, David, All That the Rain Promises, and More... Ten Speed Press, Berkley, CA, 1990
• Arora, David, Mushrooms Demystified Ten Speed Press, Berkley, CA, 1986
• Barron, George, Mushrooms of Northeast North America, Lone Pine Publishing, Renton, WA, 1999
• Bessette, Alan, and Sundberg, Walter J., Mushrooms, A Quick Reference Guide to Mushrooms of North America, MacMillan Publishing Co., New York, NY, 1987
• Bessette, Alan E., Bessette, Arleen R., and Fischer, David W., Mushrooms of Northeastern North America, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 1997
• Bessette, Alan E., Roody, William C., and Bessette, Arleen R., North American Boletes, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse NY, 2000
• Glick, Phyllis, G., The Mushroom Trail Guide, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY, 1979
• Hudler, George, Magical mushrooms, mischievous molds, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1998
• Huffman,Donald.M., Tiffany, Lois.H., and Knaphus, George., Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States, Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa, 1989
• Johnson, Emily, North American Mushrooms Photo Postcards, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1988
• Jordan, Peter, and Wheeler, Steven, The Ultimate Mushroom Book, Smithmark Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, 1995
• Katsaros, Peter, Familiar Mushrooms, North America, The Audubon Society Pocket Guides, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, NY, 1990
• Katsaros, Peter, Illustrated Guide to Common Slime Molds, Mad River Press, Eureka, CA, 1984
• Katz, Adrienne, Naturewatch, Addison-Wesley, 1986
• Kendrick, Bryce, The Fifth Kingdom, Mycologue Publications, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1985
• Kibby, Geoffrey, An Illustrated Guide to Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America, Dragons' World Ltd., London, 1993
• Laessoe, Thomas, Del Conte, Anna, and Lincoff, Gary, The Mushroom Book, DK Publishing, 1996
• Laessoe, Thomas, and Lincoff, Gary, Eyewitness Handbooks/ Mushrooms, DK Publishing, Inc., New York, NY, 1998
• Lincoff, Gary, The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1981
• Lincoff, Gary, Simon and Schuster's Guide to Mushrooms, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1981
• Lingelbach, Jenipher, Hands -On Nature, Vermont Institute of Natural Science, 1985
• Mad River Press Series, How to Identify Mushrooms to Genus, Volumes 1-6, Eureka, CA
• McKenny, Margaret, Stuntz, Daniel E. and Ammirati, Joseph R., The New Savory Wild Mushroom, University of Washington Press,, Seattle, Washington, 1987
• McKnight, Kent H., and McKnight, Vera B., Peterson Field Guides, Mushrooms, Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, 1987
• Metzler, Susan, and Metzler, Van, Texas Mushrooms: A Field Guide, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1992
• Miller, Orson K., Jr., Mushrooms of North America, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1978
• Morgan, Adrian, Toads and Toadstools, Celestial Arts Publishing, 1994
• Phillips, Roger, Mushrooms of North America, Little Brown and Co., Boston, 1991
• Rice, Miriam, and Beebee, Dorothy, Mushrooms for Color, Mad River Press, Eureka, CA, 1980
• Schaechter, Elio, In the Company of Mushrooms, Harvard University Press, Boston, MA, 1997
• Sisson, Edith H., Nature With Children of All Ages, Prentice Hall Press, New York, NY, 1982
• Smith, Alexander H., Weber, Nancy Smith, A Field Guide To Southern Mushrooms, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1985
• Smith, Alexander H., and Weber, Nancy Smith, The Mushroom Hunter's Field Guide, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1980
• Smith, Alexander H., How to Know the Non-gilled Fleshy Fungi, William C. Brown Company Publishers, Dubuque, IA, 1973
• Smith, Alexander H., and Smith, Helen V., and Weber, Nancy S., How to Know the Gilled Fungi, Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, Dubuque, IA, 1979
• Shuttleworth, Floyd, S., and Zim, Herbert S., A Golden Guide, Non-Flowering Plants, Golden Press, NY, 1967
• Stevenson, Steven L. and Stempen, Henry, Myxomycetes, A Handbook of Slime Molds, Timber Press, Portland, OR, 1994
• Watling, Roy, Fungi, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003
• Roody, William C., Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians, The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2003
• Lockwood, Taylor F., Chasing the Rain, Taylor F. Lockwood, Mendocino, CA, 2007
• Mueller, Gregory, Bills, Gerald, Foster, Mercedes, Biodiversity of Fungi, Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, MA, 2004
• Borrer, Donald, Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms, Mayfield Publishing Company, Mountain View, CA, 1988
• McNeil, Raymond, Le Grand Livre des Champignons du Quebec et de l'est du Canada, Editions Michel Quintin, Waterloo, Quebec, Canada, 2006 (in French)
• Russell, Bill, A Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic, Penn State Univ. Press, University Park, PA, 2006
• Money, Nicholas P., The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History, Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 2006
• Money, Nicholas, P., Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard, Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 2004
• Stamets, Paul, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA, 2005
• Kuo, Michael, Morels, The Univ. of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005
• Cripps, Cathy L., ed., Fungi in Forest Ecosystems: Systematics, Diversity and Ecology, Volume 89, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, NYBG, New York, 2004

Computer CD ROMs

• Kendrick, Bryce, The Fifth Kingdom, Ver 2.5, Acer Peripherals America, Inc., San Jose, CA, 2000. For information on the CD ROM and the 3rd edition of his textbook, The Fifth Kingdom, visit Bryce Kendrick's (Website) or Email bkendrick@mycolog.com.
• Wood, Michael, MykoCD, 1995-2005. Order from MykoWeb.
• The Toadstool Workshop, The Secret Lives of Mushrooms. An interactive CD ROM, for both children and adults, for Windows 98 or later. Order from Toadstool Workshop.
• Barron, George, MycoAlbum CD-Rom, ask for special amateur price $15+S&H . Order from www.mycographics.com

On the Internet

• British Mycological Society
  • Free resource for teachers to download material on fungi
• Beug, Michael:
  • Introduction to Mushrooms
  • Introduction to Fall Mushrooms
  • Morels, Truffles and Other Spring Fungi
  • Poisonous and Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
• Fogel, Robert; Rogers, Patricia, Fun Facts About Fungi. University of Michigan Herbarium, 1997
• Gateway to Educational Materials, Mushrooms
• Kendrick, Bryce, Mycologue Publications
• NorthEast Mycological Federation
• Stamets, Paul, Fungi Perfecti (cultivation materials, posters and books)
• Volk, Tom:
  • Tom Volk's Fungi
  • Images of Fungi
• Wood, Michael:
  • MykoWeb
  • The Fungi of California
• Emberger, Gary: Identification Keys to Fungi Growing on Wood
• Barron, George: 700 Images

DVDs

• Lockwood, Taylor:
  • "Mushroom Identification Trilogy"
  • "Treasures from the Kingdom of Fungi"