This book has a lot of good info--especially for a beginner. It has lots of helpful info for starting your mushroom garden.

Author provides reader with ability to differentiate between edible and poisonous fungi. Some mushrooms are for cooking and some have medicinal qualities.

The smithsonian micro miracles of the miniature world revealed is a great book to peruse through. It gives us a detailed look at the microscopic world - which is all around and within us. The illustrations of micro life are colorful and intricate.

The cover is sturdy and well-bound. The illustrations take up enough of the page so that you focus on that first, get curious, and then read the accompanying text to fill in the blanks.

Subjects photographed include insects, bacteria, fungi, plants etc.

This coffee-table sized book has over 400 pages. It is well made, heavy, and probably best viewed while on a table. A great education tool, or coffee table book if there were ever one.

It's good to thumb through and learn from, but it would also be quite educational to read the entire book cover to cover. It's the kind of book you can leave out and anyone who sees it gravitates toward and gets engrossed in it. This book is for young...  Read More

The pictures are awesome, but the format is not compatible with the kindle app. Every other letter is faded making it very difficult to read. Constant having to expand tiny print and pictures is annoying.