Honeybees: Jump into Science - Hardcover

Heiligman, Deborah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792266781 ISBN 13: 9780792266785

Publisher: National Geographic Kids, 2002

Synopsis

Readers can follow the life of a busy worker bee as she moves from job to job in the hive, helping the community in various ways as a nurse bee, a forager bee, and a guard bee.

About this title

About the Author:

DEBORAH HEILIGMAN is an award-winning author who has written a number of Let's-Read-and-Find-Out books including From Caterpillar To Butterfly and On The Move. She's also the author of the New York Public Library's Kids Guide to Research, The Story of the Titanic, and multiple books in the National Geographic Holidays Around the World series. She's not a beekeeper, although "Deborah" means "bee." This seems to have led to a love of honey!

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 3-Young readers will be awed by the amount of information packed into this brief book. The bold, gouache illustrations reinforce the hard work and myriad tasks described. From the opening pages, bees are shown on the move, gathering nectar, feeding larvae, maturing, cleaning and polishing cells, making wax, taking care of the queen, unloading nectar, and guarding the hives. Like the bees, readers jump from one concept to another and may become confused by the changing roles and stages, not realizing that a worker bee and a forager bee are the same. There is also some confusion between the diagrams and the text. The text refers to a bee's tongue whereas the diagram shows only a proboscis. Heiligman also states that bees use every part of their body to do their work but no mention is made of the role of the thorax, forelegs, or compound eye. Nonetheless, readers will learn how bees communicate, the role of royal jelly, and just how hardworking honeybees really are. An attractive addition.
Edith Ching, St. Albans School, Mt. St. Alban, Washington, DC
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About this edition

• Publisher: National Geographic Kids
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0792266781
• ISBN 13: 9780792266785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Golembe Carla