Genre: Children's 5-9 years
Published: March 5, 2024
Pages: 40
If Leo were a fungus, he wouldn't be an animal―or a plant. He would live in the mountains but also in the city. He would live in lakes, in the desert, and on cheese!
Fungi are found around the globe, yet we know very little about them. Scientists even have a hard time defining what they are because they're so contradictory. In If I Were a Fungus, author and illustrator Gaia Stella presents a colorful and offbeat introduction to a most unusual life-form!
I received a copy of this book through Netgalley. This is my honest review.
This was a story about a boy who wants to be a fungus, and it had an "I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener" feeling to it. It goes into details about all the reasons why he wants to be a fungus and all the things that he would do as a fungus as well.
I learned some things about fungus while reading this book, and so I'd be okay reading the book a few times for the educational factor, especially at the end of the book. The illustrations were fairly simple but very colorful.
Overall I give If I Were a Fungus 3.9583 out of 5 stars. - Katie
Gaia Stella is an award-winning illustrator and author. She has authored and illustrated picture books and novelty books for Italian and international publishers, including hélium, La Joie de Lire, De La Martinière Jeunesse, Mondadori, Einaudi. She's done editorial illustrations for clients such as the New York Times, Vogue Bambini, and the Boston Globe. Gaia's colorful and geometric imagery is inspired by a variety of (sometimes unexpected) sources: architecture by Mies Van De Rohe, a chair designed by Gio Ponti, photos by René Maltête, illustrations by Vladimir Lebedev, short stories by Gianni Rodari, and the packaging of Asian food. She lives and works in Milan, Italy.
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