Honey's Hive

This adventure story for children is full of excitement as well as interesting information all about the fascinating lives of bees.

Honey is a young, excitable bee who struggles to find her place in the hive, even though there are so many jobs on offer. She’s not cut out for guard duty or honeymaking, and her efforts with looking after the colony’s larvae leave her in a gross-out, vomitous mess! She’s more interested in breakdance than waggle dance.

What Honey really craves is adventure. She understands the collective responsibility of hive-life but longs for independence and agency. Such dreams have to be put to one side, though, when Honey’s hive is attacked and she is suddenly part of a team protecting the homeless queen who needs a new hive…fast.

In the end, adventure finds honey after all. finding a new hive means escaping fierce wasps and clueless humans and learning to work with new friends, like flies and solitary carpenter bees.

The book is a festival of everything bee. The story is regularly interrupted for the delivery of bee facts and the charming illustrations of elfin bees gives the insects an even more magical feel. Though the hive-lives of bees are celebrated, Honey’s adventures show her that not everyone lives the way she does and that this is something to be grateful for.

With a fun story and engaging messages about teamwork and open-mindedness, Honey’s Hive will certainly get young readers buzzing!