The Fungus That Ate My School

A group of children returns to school after a rainy spring vacation to find that a slimy green, yellow and purple fuzz is covering everything, even the principal’s office. IT’s a fungus! But where did IT come from, and how can they get rid of IT?

"When three young scientists leave a fungus experiment unattended over a wet and rainy spring vacation, [they] return to discover that an insatiable uber-fungus has taken over the school, devouring (and mocking) everything in its slimy path. While Dorros tells this picture book parody of a sci-fi thriller with relative restraint and sly humor, Catrow's wildly Seussian illustrations burst off the pages. Run for your lives!"–The Horn Book

"Dorros's hyperbolic romp is unapologetically silly."–Publishers Weekly

In the part of the country where I live, the Pacific Northwest, the conditions are often right for fungi to grow. A fungus got my shoe, another started eating its way through my clothes, and there’s a fungus in our basement-my son has been growing it. (That one is contained, though it’s eaten its way through a metal bowl.) Fungi can take many forms, from wispy and cotton-like to slimy, slithery masses. With moisture and a little something for nutrition, a fungus can get growing. Fungus can be serious business. But not in this book. This is a fungus like neither you, nor I, has ever seen before. It has a mind of its own, and the illustrator even has it wearing a cowboy hat as it takes off.