Bees (Denver Museum Insect Books) - Hardcover

Hodge, Deborah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1553370651 ISBN 13: 9781553370659

Publisher: Kids Can Press, 2004

Synopsis

In this book in the Denver Museum Insect Books series, children find out how bees live and work together, learn about the bee life cycle and bee bodies, discover how bees "talk" to one another, and make honeycomb prints and a model bee.

About this title

About the Author

Deborah Hodge is a former educational consultant and curriculum designer. She is also an award-winning author of many nonfiction books for children and is the author of the Kids Can Press Wildlife Series. She lives in Vancouver.

Reviews

Reviewed with Deborah Hodge's Ants.

Gr. 1-3. New books in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science series do a good job of combining age-appropriate projects to reinforce learning with just plain facts. These volumes, useful to youngsters fascinated by insects as well as to those studying them in the classroom, will pump up the curiosity level. Full-color close-ups of ants and bees in their natural habitats (slightly better in bees than ants) and scientific drawings, all well labeled, bring kids literally face-to-face with bugs. The text, delivered in small bites mostly scattered across the pages and usually accompanied by spot art, is direct, one idea per paragraph. It briefly describes physical characteristics, social structure, behavior, and the growth cycle. Hodge also neatly works in odd bits of fact and gives stellar explanations of unfamilar subject-specific terms (pollen is "flower dust"). A few lines of text relate each project (there are three in each book) to the main discussion. A great way to bring a bit of the outdoors inside. Stephanie Zvirin
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Edition details

• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1553370651
• ISBN 13: 9781553370659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Mulock Julian
• Number of pages: 32