Inventive illustrations paired with narrative and non-fiction elements introduces young readers to the world of bees.
Mason B. C handler is a detective and solitary bee on a mission, and she needs your help to solve a mystery in Bug Borough.
As Mason follows clues through Bug Borough, you'll discover everything there is to know about bees! Learn all about the different types of bees, their homes, how they communicate and what you can do to help look after them.
This is one of the many books we checked out in our search for information about solitary bees and sources for a storytime to go along with our Mason Bee house project. This is less of a read-aloud and more of a late-elementary graphic novel on bees in Nature/STEM-- Mason B. Chandler is trying to solve the mystery of "Who spilled the honey?" and visits a variety of bee communities in "STEMville", learning about Mason bees, Pollination, Bumblebees, Honeybees/social bee hive life, the advantage of Hexagon building in beehives, how honey is harvested, and about wasps and hoverflies as well. A fun read for a nature-lover, especially go go along with some sort of bee project-- and one that doesn't focus excusively on the imported Eurasian honeybee!
An excellent story geared toward early and middle readers, provides a ton of information about bees. I recommend it, and will be ordering the next in the series, The Fast Lane, all about the inner workings of automobiles.