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UnBEElievables
Honeybee Poems and Paintings
By FLORIAN, Douglas
- ISBN
- 978-1-4424-2652-8
- Publisher
- S & S Beach Lane Bks
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2012 | Preschool to Grade 4
Gr 3–5—Another winning compendium in the vein of Florian's Dinothesaurus (S & S, 2009), Insectlopedia (1998), and On the Wing (1996, both Harcourt). Cheerful anthropomorphized caricatures of honeybees accompany upbeat, rhyming wordplay and factual notes in the artist's familiar style. The multimedia pictures, created on brown paper bags, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2012
Working in gouache, colored pencils, and collage on paper bags, Florian evokes the world of bees with repetitive patterning that cleverly references their honeycombs and the fields of flowers they frequent as well as the bees themselves -- worker bees are sisters hatched from eggs laid two thousand at a crack. His rhythmic verse, too, echoes be...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Working in gouache, colored pencils, and collage on paper bags, Florian evokes the world of bees with repetitive patterning that cl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
