Fungus Fred Goes Foraying by Maggie Hadley, British Mycological Society, £5.25, ISBN 0952770466 Reviewed by Vivienne Greig
TO SPARE your blushes next time you take the children on a country walk, sit them down beforehand with Fungus Fred. This will save you having to vague out over whether something is a toadstool, a mushroom or just plain weird.
Fungus Fred has helpful friends: librarian Ms Brown and mycologist Dr Blewitt. They are cloyingly cute, but grit your teeth, because they do a grand job.
Maggie Hadley’s Fungus Fred Goes Foraying teaches children the basics of identifying a fungus. What does it look like? What’s its shape?…
