A Bear's Guide to Beekeeping

Readers will love the humour dancing through this wonderful picture book. To begin, capturing some bees must be the first target. Look out for the would-be beekeeper bear’s rehearsal of the waggle dance! Each spread has speech bubble comments from a pigeon, who finds the bear’s bumbling quite incomprehensible. Page after page there are explanations of the basic practicalities of beekeeping for beginners. The artwork brilliantly explores every nuance of the text, each bee having character, whilst the misguided optimism of Bear is plain to see.  Pigeon tries to warn Bear as he falls into one trap after another. At Harvest time, and on opening the hive, there is no honey! The humour continues as it is realized that for honey to be produced there must be a queen! Otherwise, as we see in the pictures, the bees just laze about, watching TV, reading, snacking, snoozing… or playing computer games! Readers will enjoy studying the illustrations throughout, a humorous must for any beekeeping family, and of course for every library shelf.