Sometimes people ask where the idea for The Mutant Mushroom Takeover came from. A couple things got me started. One was an idea my son had for a pirate named Root Beard whose beard was made of living tree roots. I started imagining what a character who was part human, part something else might be like, which eventually inspired the creation of an important character in the book.
The other was an old documentary the kids and I watched (homeschool fun!) called Fungi The Rotten World About Us. It had all sorts of creepy, fascinating facts about fungi and was a starting point for more research and imagining.
Check it out if you want to know more about the spooky stuff mushrooms get up to when you’re not looking! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCz36LfN3uI
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