Biddle, Wayne. MICROBES - KIDS DISCOVER Magazine. Anchor Books, 2002.
The author introduces to children that microbes are everywhere, including on your skin, in your mouth, and inside your organs, but don't fear, most microbes are harmless and some are beneficial to us.
Dyer, Betsey Dexter. A Field Guide to Bacteria. Cornell University: Ithaca, NY, 2003. (pp. 32-33 for guide on using microbes to seek life on other planets, pp. 232-275--cyanobacteria)
The author offers this field guide to the amateurs looking to explore the microbial world and how microbes are not all pathenogenic. We find microbes in certain foods we eat such as yogurt, cheeses, wine, and ale, to name a few.
Farrell, Jeanette. Invisible Allies: Microbes That Shape Our Lives: Farrar Straus Giroux, April 2005
The author informs students about how microbes help us in preserving our foods by digesting foods and transforming it by decomposition in order for the cycle to repeat itself. The author provides illustrations and amusing anecdotes.
Padilla, Michael, Ioannis Miaoulis, and Martha Cyr. Science Explorer: From Bacteria to Plants. Pearson Prentice Hall. November 15, 2007
The authors provide a juvenile textbook written for children/young adults in grades seven to nine.
Sachs, Jessica Snyder. Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World: Hill and Wang: New York 2007
The author explains that although public sanitation and the use of antibiotics have increased the life span in humans, it also creates other problems by destroying the helpful microorganisms that we need for survival, thus creating new problems with our immune systems.
