Product Description

Young children will have fun taking Honeybee from the cover pocket and setting her on the winding word path back to her beehive. This is a delightful interactive book for kids to enjoy again and again.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1035579 in Books
• Published on: 1994-03-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 20 pages

Review
Honeybee buzzes along from a red poppy, to a blue cornflower, past ducks and squirrels and other friendly animals, and finally back to the hive. The gimmick tothis book is that a honeybee is tucked into a pocket on the front cover and can be used to follow the words as they are read, diving through slits in each page to appear on the next page. The illustrator has wisely provided a model to trace if the original bee is lost. (Children's Literature )

Ingram
A full-color, interactive companion volume to Ladybug on the Move lets preschoolers take Honeybee from the cover pocket to gather nectar while buzzing along a winding word path. BOMC Main.

About the Author
Richard Fowler is author and illustrator of over fifty children's books. A number of these titles are novelty books for which he does his own paper engineering. He won a scholarship at the age of 13 to the Farnham School of Art in Surrey where he majored in Graphic Design and Illustration. His titles for Doubleday include Mole's Bedtime Story and Ladybird Moves Home. He lives in London and has two grown-up sons. 

Customer Reviews

Colorful, fun book that is also a subtle teaching tool
This was given to us as a birthday present for my then one-year-old boy. Immediately his brother, 4, commandeered it for himself and spent quite a bit of time that afternoon pushing the cardboard honeybee on her path and through the pages to the other sides to continue. Seeing me do this once was all it took to fascinate them both.

The honeybee, which is stored in a plastic pocket on the cover, starts on page one to follow a path of words that curves and turns across the spread to disappear behind a cleverly disguised cut into the next page. The flowers and objects are identified specifically, like "Iris" and "Cornflower", so kids do learn a little uncommon info for their age. I think that when they try to take over moving the bee for themselves (which is inevitable), they also learn good hand eye coordination skills. Best of all, the words are like a magic path that has direction, pacing and meaning. Clever!

I'm a big fan of children's picture books that are interactive because they work! Kids' attention will be riveted, they love to play with the book even when you're not reading to them, and they develop an understanding and appreciation of books. I remember cherishing Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar book myself at that age because it was just so cool. It made learning easy and fun. This book has a similar appeal, and I would recommend it to anybody whose children respond to that sort of thing.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle

My toddler loves this book!
This book is great fun for my 1 1/2 year old. She loves to maneuver the honeybee through the pages. It is an innovative concept, and it works well. The only problem is that where the honeybee is pushed through the page, the page rips pretty easily. But the honeybee has stood up well.