Bzzz...
What's that?
Do you hear it?
You're near it.
It's closer,
it's coming,
it's buzzing,
it's humming...
A BEE!
With zooming, vibrant verse by Kirsten Hall and buzzy, beautiful illustrations by Isabelle Arsenault, this celebration of the critically important honeybee is a honey-sweet treasure of a picture book.
"The plight of the endangered honeybee is the raison d'être of this story.... Dominated by golden hues punctuated with splashes of neon yellow, the airy mixed-media art by Arsenault ( Cloth Lullaby) helps kids decipher the goings-on, in and out of the hive. Tips on how to help preserve the bee population follow the story." - Publishers Weekly, March 2018
Kirsten Hall is a former preschool and elementary school teacher who has authored more than a hundred learn-to-read stories for emergent readers. Today, she is the founder and owner of a boutique children's book illustration and literary agency, Catbird Productions. Hall is the author of the picture books The Gold Leaf and The Jacket, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014.
Isabelle Arsenault is an internationally renowned children's book illustrator whose work has won many awards and much praise from critics. Her books include Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear, Cloth Lullaby by Amy Novesky, and Jane, the Fox, and Me by Fanny Britt, which was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book. The poetry expressed through Isabelle Arsenault's graphic universe, the gentleness of her lines and the overall charm of her books have made her one of Quebec's best-known and most esteemed illustrators. Visit Isabelle online at IsabelleArsenault.com.
Target Age: 4-8
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub Date: May 08, 2018
0.5" H x 11.2" L x 9.1" W
48 pages
hardcover
Little Simon
Pub Date: January 24, 2023
0.96" H x 7.41" L x 5.33" W
44 pages
board book