Bo, a honeybee and Flo a Monarch Butterfly are the best of friends.They love chatting as they sip nectar and pollinate flowers. One day, during one of their chats, they discuss their similarities as well as their differences. The best friends learn that they both contribute a great deal to the world around them, but they also need a lot of help from humans. This book teaches both the importance of pollination as well as the lifecycles of both honeybees and butterflies. At the end of the book is a helpful article with ways that we can help the insects who help us the most. After reading this story, will you be the one to help Bo and Flo? If you do, you will help them save the world!
R. W. Johnson is a British-South African journalist and historian. Born in England, he was educated at Natal University and Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar. He was a fellow in politics at Magdalen College, Oxford, for twenty-six years; he remains an emeritus fellow. He was formerly Director of the Helen Suzman Foundation in Johannesburg.
He is currently a South Africa correspondent for the London Sunday Times and also writes for the London Review of Books. His articles for the LRB generally cover South African and, to a lesser extent, Zimbabwean affairs.