The Horn Book Guide

SCIENCE

Hall, Kirsten

The Honeybee

48 pp. | Atheneum | May, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-6997-5 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4814-6998-2

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault. Hall's nimble rhyming verse and Arsenault's warm illustrations provide an up-close visit with a friendly colony of anthropomorphized honeybees. The book hovers between fiction and information; the solid if limited facts are conveyed in an impressionistic style. The text's varied rhythms mimic a bee's movements in a summery world; that atmosphere is captured in the mixed-media illustrations' muted palette of mostly yellow, gray, brown, and beige.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2018