Hello Honeybees: Read and play in the hive!

by Hannah Rogge, Emily Dove (Illustrator)

Overview

Unique board book transforms into a stand-up beehive!

Fly the bees through the story and play along in the hive: The youngest nature lovers will adore this ingenious board book that transforms into a stand-up beehive! Simply "fly" the two bee characters–attached to board book with ribbons–through the beautifully illustrated pages to visit a garden, tour the beehive, and see how honey is made. Full of playful and informative touches, this book is a sweet introduction to the hardworking honeybee that will have young readers buzzing to learn more.

• "A great educational book that explains what honeybees do." –Book Riot
• Fun and interactive book families can enjoy together
• Author Hannah Rogge has written many craft titles and journals, and illustrator Emily Dove is a certified naturalist.

Fans of We Are the Gardeners by Joanna Gaines with love moving the bees through the stand-up hive in Hello Honeybees.

Fun, interactive and educational introduction to the hardworking honeybee.

• Interactive, fun, and engaging
• Great family time book
• Books for kids ages 3-5
• Children's books for grades Preschool and up

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452168920
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	03/19/2019
Pages:	14
Sales rank:	194,829
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

Emily Dove is an illustrator and certified naturalist who lives in the San Francisco area.

Hannah Rogge is the author of many craft titles and journals, and is the creative director at ROBIE. She lives in New York.

Editorial Reviews

"A great educational book that explains what honeybees do." —Book Riot

From the Publisher

2019-01-28

Two die-cut cardboard worker bees accompany readers through an introduction to honeybees.

They are set into shaped holes in the cover and attached to the book with yellow ribbons, but subsequent pages give them no real place to rest or otherwise interact with the text, reducing them to glorified bookmarks. The bees speak to readers in the first-person plural, imparting basic information in a series of declarative sentences. Unfortunately, odd phrasing combines with oversimplification for a bumpy ride. "We fly from flower to flower spreading pollen dust," for instance, both neglects the bees' gathering of pollen as a foodstuff and adds the wholly unnecessary "dust," mischaracterizing the substance. They do "a dance called the Waggle"—like the Charleston?—rather than a waggle dance, and its description is brushed in very broad strokes. In the hive, they "chew flower nectar"—a liquid and therefore unchewable—"to make honey" rather than performing the complicated enzymatic process that actually takes place. Dove's illustrations depict an impossible hive (an old-fashioned straw one bisected by a branch) rather than a modern wooden hive or an actual feral nest. While most in the board-book audience are likely not to know the difference, to present them with vague, fact-adjacent information and active untruths for the sake of a gimmick that doesn't work particularly well does them a disservice. If it's too complicated to communicate clearly, don't bother trying.

Buzz on by this one. (Board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews