Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera

by Candace Fleming & Eric Rohmann (illustrator)

***Winner 2021 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal***

Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera is a scientific picture book about the short, busy life of the honeybee. It contains the usual facts that an information book should but also provides food for thought about how we all follow a similar cycle of life and death, and how much work really goes into a spoonful of honey. What lifts this book is the seamless interweaving of the text with the detailed, magnified oil painting illustrations.

Ages 4-8