Candace Fleming
Honeybee: The Busy Life of APIs Mellifera
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Life Science
- Environment & Ecology
- Lyrical / Visual Picture Book
- Nature Narrative / Field Discovery
- Story / Adventure
The book follows one worker bee, Apis, from emergence through a sequence of changing hive jobs until her first flight for nectar. Poetic language, detailed illustrations, and the anticipation of flight make the honeybee life cycle and colony behavior the arc of a single life story.
The science inside
- Animals & Zoology
- Ecosystems
Your child will meet:
- A worker honeybee performs different colony jobs as she ages.
- Hive tasks such as feeding larvae, building comb, storing food, and defense support the colony as a whole.
- Foraging bees collect nectar and move pollen between flowers and the hive.
- A wax honeycomb cell is a hive structure and not evidence of cellular microbiology.
Use it this way
Parent effort: No prep
Take to the sky with Apis, one honeybee, as she embarks on her journey through life! Now available in paperback. An Orbis Pictus Honor Book Selected for the Texas Bluebonnnet Master List Finalist for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Book A tiny honeybee emerges through the wax cap of her cell. Driven to protect and take care of her hive, she cleans the nursery and feeds the larvae and the queen. But is she strong enough to fly? Not yet! Apis builds wax comb to store honey, and transfers pollen from other bees into the storage. She defends the hive from invaders. And finally, she begins her new life as an adventurer. The confining walls of the hive fall away as Apis takes to the air, finally free, in a brilliant double-gatefold illustration where the clear blue sky is full of promise-- and the wings of dozens of honeybees, heading out in search of nectar to bring back to the hive. Eric Rohmann's exquisitely detailed illustrations bring the great outdoors into your hands in this poetically written tribute to the hardworking honeybee. Award-winning author Candace Fleming describes the life cycle of the honeybee in accessible, beautiful language. Similar in form and concept to the Sibert and Orbis Pictus award book Giant Squid, Honeybee also features a stunning gatefold and an essay on the plight of honeybees. A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, NPR, Shelf Awareness, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly and more! A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of the Year A Booklist Editor's Choice
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