How to be a bee
How to be A BEE (picture book for ages 5-10) written by singingsuebee and illustrated by Marie Sabatino Goodwin with the most glorious pen and ink grey wash illustrations. The end page holds a BIG surprise when the bee discovers just who he is and why he’s here! Original song to accompany this story recorded by singingsuebee.
This story is about a BEE in search of himself. It came to me before the song how children contemplate the questions about who they are, why they exist, and what they might want to discover about themselves as their days fly by. The BEE is naturally curious about all things, and every other creature he meets that is not like himself, he wants to know – what do you do, and how am I to be? He asks and he asks some more, until… he discovers what it means to be a BEE.
Bees are precious to our food chain and we need to protect them by planting plants that help them pollinate – “pollinator pathways” we call them to support bees along their journey – so there is an educational component to this story as well that will open the discussion about how to help our Mother Earth, and its little creature the bee. This in turn help us, too.