The Net Keeper: A Fable About How the Fungi Came to Be

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By Diane Brooks Pleninger
Artwork by Yuming Wang
30 pages with artwork on every page

Diane Pleninger grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Wellesley College and Arizona State University, where she majored in English. She is retired from a forty-year career as a CPA. Her interest in fungi began in 1997, nurtured by the late Phyllis Kempton of Anchorage, Alaska, an amateur mycologist often called “the gray lady” of Alaskan mycology and a protege of Dr. Alexander Smith. Diane’s stories for children have been published and anthologized by Cricket magazine. She has written award-winning essays for The Economist and the Templeton Foundation, drawing on her interest in mycology

Yuming Wang was born in Nanjing, China, and raised in Chiba, Japan. She is fascinated with nature and aspires to bridge science and the public using various visual media. As a big fan of anime and manga, she loves to draw fictional characters and imaginary landscapes as well. Yuming is currently an undergraduate student studying biology and art at Mount Holyoke College.