"a hungry bear
a busy bee
a bear
and a bee
in a honey tree"
If you want your little one to learn how truly amazing reading is, this is the kind of book you want to give them. A bee's path on the endpapers leads the reader in to the title page where a surprised bear watches the bee pass over his head. That bear (shown on the introductory page) just woke in his cave to sunshine. Turn the page and a yawning bee is doing the same in a honey tree. The bear, the bee and the honey tree are introduced in those words only. Perfect for those wanting to know what is reading is.
Every double-page spread is filled with movement and sunshine. Hungry, the bear's keen nose leads him to the honey tree. Eureka! The bee is not nearly as keen. It does its best to deter the bear from getting its paws on the honeycomb. When it doesn't work, the bee's grumbles attract the attention of 'a million fuzzy buzzing bees' and the rest of the story is given over to a game of hide-and-seek!
The text is deceptively simple, matching the action shown in the enticing and always entertaining digital artwork. Words are repetitive and give little ones the power to help with the 'reading' which is exactly what we want when they are beginning on their path to a love of reading.
The phrasing grows in the most delicious ways adding words like sneaky, fretful, angry, fuzzy to the action. Thirty-five wondrous words and brilliant infused light combined with humor, and excitement - what a collaboration! This is certain to be on a repeat cycle for days to come.
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