Buzzzzzzzz...: What Honeybees Do

Buzzzzzzzz...: What Honeybees Do

by Virginia Wright
Buzzzzzzzz...: What Honeybees Do

Buzzzzzzzz...: What Honeybees Do

by Virginia Wright

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Overview

Learn the basics about honeybees, where and how they live. Children and adults will learn from this educational, nonfiction, beekeeping book for beginners. Teachers, use Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do as a honeybee primer in the classroom-- it is easy to understand and answers the questions:

Do all honeybees sting?
What do honeybees do with pollen?
How do honeybees make honey?
What is pollination?
Does all honey look and taste alike?
Where do honeybees live?
What can we do to benefit the bees?
What kind of flowers do honeybees prefer?

With over 2,000 words packed in this 26-page book, Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do can be used in conjunction with your current school curriculum to teach kids about honeybees and beekeeping basics. Real photographs of the honeybees, comb, hives, flowers, and even one of a bee's tongue!

Written by beekeepers!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781451552683
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 04/04/2010
Pages: 28
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.07(d)

About the Author

VIRGINIA WRIGHT is author and illustrator of the children's books-- Buzzzzzzzz (a nonfiction, educational beekeeping primer for all ages), Crying Bear, The Princess and the Castle, The Prince and the Dragon, Wild Animal Sounds, Timothy the Christmas Mouse, Timothy the Christmas Mouse Coloring Book For Children and The Christmas Secret. Wright says being a preschool teacher for a number of years at a private Christian Preschool and Kindergarten in Ocean Springs, Mississippi was definitely an inspiration for writing children's books, but the true inspiration for "Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do" comes from one of her five grandchildren Abigail, because of her inquisitiveness about honeybees after visiting the bee yard with her grandfather who was a beekeeper. Virginia Wright first became a published author in 1981 when she sold her first writing to a regional magazine in the state of Maine. She also had several of her writings published in an Anthology-- Soundings, by the Poetry Fellowship of Maine, as well as writings in print appeared in the Bangor Daily News. She was quoted as saying, "When I am not spending time with my husband, adapting recipes and cooking, taking nature photos, then I spend my time doing what I enjoy doing most, writing..."
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