Molds, Mushrooms & Other Fungi

Kingdom Classification

by Steve Parker

This book introduces you to the fungi kingdom, from familiar mushrooms to unicellular yeasts. It examines the types of fungi, their reproductive methods, and how they feed. It also looks at modern uses of fungi, as well as how fungi recycle dead organic matter into useful nutrients. Did You Know? There are about 100,000 species of fungi. Some fungi digest their food outside of their bodies. Not counting tree roots, 90 percent of all living matter in forest soil is made up of fungi.

48 pages, Library Binding

First published August 1, 2009

About the author

Steve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.

Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.

Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.

Reviews

[Teri · Rating 3 out of 5]

typcial dry layout--but the pictures are pretty great. We used this book to learn about the fungi kingdom, did a "How Does Mold Grow" experiment and used the following youtube videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETRX1-...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ5Me4...

[CFAITC]

This book introduces readers to the fungi kingdom, from familiar mushrooms to unicellular plants. Discover how fungi recycle dead matter into useful nutrients.

[Maggi Rohde · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative and straightforward. Good addition for 8 and up.