Review by School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 3-Short rhymes plus close-up paintings of life in a colony of wild honey bees will fascinate the read-aloud crowd. Older students can learn more about the role of different bees in the colony's survival from the sentences at the bottom of each spread. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
This book provides a glimpse into the lives of honey bees. The golden-hued, realistic illustrations are more notable than the text-- rhymed couplets ("Blossoms out. / Dancing scout. / Sisters fly / through the sky") accompanied by captionlike text that provides some facts. An informative "The Buzz About Honey Bees" spread, including four small photos, is appended. Reading list, websites. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Simple rhymes and striking full-bleed illustrations introduce the daily lives of honeybees to very young readers and listeners. Arbo's detailed paintings show vistas of a bucolic farm visited by oversized honeybees, glorious flowers and close-ups of a hive inside a tree. Rhyming couplets of three-syllable lines are accompanied by a line or two of more detailed prose on most double-page spreads. Two pages of back matter add more information about honeybees, although there is nothing about the colony collapse and near disappearance of feral colonies. Readers and listeners may be left wondering just how the nectar and pollen bees collect becomes honey. The main text seems to give the impression that the two work together in cells. Although the backmatter explains that they are stored in separate cells it does not explain the use of either material or the modifications necessary in the process by which nectar becomes honey. Show this entry in the Sharing Nature with Children series to young budding naturalists but be prepared for their questions. (Informational picture book. 4-7) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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