The Pocket Guide to Wild Mushrooms: Helpful Tips for Mushrooming in the Field

Good beginner book. Small size makes it easy to carry. Would like one just for Colorado mushrooms though.

I bought this book to carry in the woods with me and the size/price is goodThere are about a million or 2 different mushrooms. I have some very good books on Shroom ID like the field guide to Mushrooms of the Carolinas which is probably the most comprehensive book for my area that is published. Even that book is not so easy to find the exact shroom that I may have brought home and that work really goes into the ID of the shrooms. That said the pocket guide is a good aid to quick ID and works well for classifying a Shroom a keeper or forgedaboutit and move on. It is quick and easy to work with.Chuck Upstate South Carolina

This book is very handy for some of the more common edible mushrooms you'll find. I wish it had other mushrooms such as Chicken of the Woods, Hen of the Woods and a few others. They had several types of Chantrelle and that felt a bit excessive. Having said that, I still believe it will be very useful as it showed me better identification methods and explained (in text and pictures) what their look-a-likes look like. I have to disagree with the "Pocket" aspect in the title. Maybe if you're a guy or wear something with large pockets then this is accurate; however, for most women's clothing our pockets aren't big enough to fit this book. But I'm sure their target audience is men anyway, so it makes sense.

I like this pocket guide because it is easy to carry and refer to. It isn’t my favorite mushrooming book, that one is the Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest, but it is small and easy to use. It has made a great cross reference book and helped me determine what shroom I’m looking at when in the woods.

I like the way this book is laid out and it has been helpful to me in trying to expand my ability to identify wild mushrooms I find hiking.

For a small book, it has great information. And it's just the right size to take hunting!

My husband loves it. It got lost in the mail but Amazon sent out another one and it came fast.

Very nice book

It was a gift but I seriously considered asking for it once the person (they are 8 yrs old) was through using it. Compelling photos with plain language descriptions. Dimensions of the book make it convient for field trips or to pop in a backpack.

Good book

just what we were looking for

It is a handy size but it hasn't given my husband the confidence to eat any of the mushrooms he has found.

love this handy book keep it in my pack on my little hikes