The Mushroom Man

There once was a man who spent his days in the dark. He worked in a mushroom farm, and people called him the mushroom man, for he even resembled the crop he tended. Children teased him on the street, but the man had been blessed with a cheerful disposition. He was, for the most part, content?but he was lonely.
In Ethel Pochocki's moving little story, the mushroom man sets out to find a companion. After a bit of trial and error, he ultimately does, in a nether world warmly illuminated by Barry Moser's shadowy but sensitive illustrations.