Annotated Bibliography
Alcade, Pedro & Merlín Alcalde. Metaphors: Understanding Philosophy Through Images. Munich:Prestel, 2024. This book describes metaphors with images.
Armstrong, Carol M., and M. Catherine de Zegher. Ocean flowers: impressions from nature. New York, N.Y.: The Drawing Center , 2004. This book contains the history of cyanotypes and its connection to photography.
Bates, Jeffrey., Neil W Ashton, and J. G Duckett. Bryology for the twenty-first century. Leeds: Maney Publishing and the British Bryological Society, 1998. This book is a collection of scientific papers about bryophytes (which are a group of non-vascular plants that include mosses) as they relate to their environments.
Bradley, Kate, and Claire Brewer. 101 Inclusive and SEN Art, Design Technology and Music Lessons: Fun Activities and Lesson Plans for Children Aged 3–11. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020. This book has adaptive lessons that accommodate students within the context of an arts curriculum.
Brown, Andrew. Art & ecology now. Vol. 256. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. This book has an essay about the American artist Paula Hayes who cultivates terrariums for her artwork.
Burgess, Anika. Flashes of Brilliance. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2025. This book is about the development of photography.
Chevannes, Sabrina. Chess for Children Activity Book. London: Batsford, 2025. This a chess activity book for children about strategy and is a beginner’s guide.
DK Publishing. The Science of Plants. New York City: DK Publishing, 2022. The is a comprehensive guide to plants with a section on moss.
Donald, Diana., and Jane Munro. Endless forms: Charles Darwin, natural science and the visual arts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. This book has essays about Darwin and evolutionary science as it relates to aesthetics in visual arts.
Fairman, Elisabeth R., Robert McCracken Peck, Molly Duggins, David Burnett, Laurie Clark, Mandy Bonnell, Tracey Bush, et al. Of green leaf, bird, and flower: artists' books and the natural world. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. This text has essays about artworks inspired by the natural world.
Flake, Gary William. The computational beauty of nature: Computer explorations of fractals, chaos, complex systems, and adaptation. MIT press, 2000. This book is about the intersections between math, art and science when expressing the natural world through computation.
Gilbert, Elizabeth. The signature of all things: a novel. Penguin, 2014. The 19th century female protagonist of this fictional novel is a botanist and she is inspired by the study of mosses.
Goffinet, Bernard., and A. Jonathan Shaw. Bryophyte biology. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. This text is an overview of the biology of bryophytes that includes descriptions of mosses and their environments.
Kaggwa, Sir Apollo. The customs of the Baganda. Columbia University Press, 1934. This book is an overview of the cultural beliefs and customs of the Baganda people of Uganda, Africa.
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. 2003. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Oregon State University Press. This is a collection of personal essays by an indigenous scientist with reflections about the importance of mosses culturally and environmentally.
Lipscomb, Katy & Tyler Fisher. The Artist’s Drawing Book. Oregon: Blue Star Press, 2023. This book is a visual guide to drawing for beginners.
Lockhart, Neil. Rare and threatened bryophytes of Ireland. National Museums Northern Ireland publication. Cultra, Northern Ireland: National Museums Northern Ireland, 2012. 48% of European plant life exists in Ireland. This book describes the unique conditions that support Bryophytes in Ireland their subsequent decline from factors such as climate change.
Madden, Meg. This is a Book for People Who Love Mushrooms. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2023. This book is a useful reference for identifying mushrooms by image and characteristics. It can be used to do the same with moss identification.
Malcolm, W. M., and Nancy Malcolm. Mosses and other bryophytes: an illustrated glossary. 2nd ed. Nelson, N.Z.: Micro-Optics Press, 2006. This book has photographs and microscopic images of mosses as well as terms used to describe them.
Moore, Alan, Rick Veitch, Alfredo P. Alcala, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben, Tatjana Wood, and John Costanza. Swamp Thing. New York: Vertigo/DC Comics, 1987-. This comic is about the transformation of a scientist into a plant through a process of toxic mutation.
Munro, Jane. "'More Like a Work of Art than of Nature': Darwin, Beauty and Sexual Selection." Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts (2009): 253-291.
Museum, Yale Peabody. “YPM ANT 248088.” Yale Peabody Museum Collections Search. Accessed July 12, 2025. https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-ANT- 248088. This is a source to source images of moss specimens.
Newell, Ben. 2024. Hello Tiny World: An Enchanting Journey Into the World of Creating Terrariums. DK Publishing. This is a resource detailing what materials are needed to create terrariums.
Nordström, Ulrica. Moss. Penguin UK, 2019. This book has a global cultural perspective on moss from Japan to the West Coast of the United States of America. It opens with a passage from the book The Signature of All Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert where the protagonist describes the enormity of what she see contained within moss while she observes it firsthand.
Okotcha, Poppy. 2025. A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us. Bloomsburg Publishing. This is a memoir about gardening that incoporates the author’s Nigerian and English heritage.
Oscar the grouch puppet | smithsonian institution. Accessed July 12, 2025. https://www.si.edu/object/oscar-grouch-puppet:nmah_1182904. This website has a description of how the muppet Oscar the Grouch turned form orange to green. This character is age appropriate as an alternative to The Swamp Thing for teaching students K-8 about texture, color and transformation.
Oshima, Megumi, and Hideshi Kimura. Miniature Moss Gardens: Create Your Own Japanese Container Gardens (Bonsai, Kokedama, Terrariums & Dish Gardens). Tuttle Publishing, 2017. This text describes how to create moss gardens from a Japanese cultural perspective.
Rand, Emily. Drawn by Nature: Patterns. Laurence King, 2025. This is an art book for children with activities about patterns in nature.
Sullivan, Jane. Illuminated Letters Sketchbook. Peter Pauper Press, 2016. This is a guided sketchbook for drawing illuminated letters that can be adapted to the commonplace book lesson on letters with moss on them.
Tuba, Zoltán., Nancy G Slack, and Lloyd R Stark. Bryophyte ecology and climate change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011. This book is about the importance of bryophytes as indicators of climate change.
Van Houten, Kate, Erica Van Horn, and Colin Sackett. Of lichen & moss. Ballybeg, Grange, Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland: Coracle, 2022. This is a book of personal reflections accompanied by artworks of mosses.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. "Vindication of the Rights of Woman." In Democracy: a reader, pp. 297- 306. Columbia University Press, 2016. The is an Enlightment argument about the right of women to have access to education.
Wood, Andrew J., Melvin J Oliver, and D. J Cove. New frontiers in bryology: physiology, molecular biology, and functional genomics. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2004. This text is moss plant biology and their ability to adapt to environmental stressors.
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