Washoe County Library System

"Did you know there are blue bees and green bees? Or that one species of bee nests in snail shells? Or that many bees don’t live in hives? With more than 20,000 species of bees worldwide, there’s more to bees than just honey! The Book of Bees gives curious kids a close-up view of busy buzzers from around the world. From the familiar Western honeybee to the extra-large Himalayan giant honeybee and Australia’s vibrant neon cuckoo...

Busy Bug helps Bitsy Bee enjoy her first snow day in Bugland.

When an old woman returns from an unexpected absence with an unusual infant and a swarm of bees, and insists on keeping both, her family adopts the child, and Simonopio grows up surrounded by bees and brings change to the entire region.

A love poem from a father to his two sons, and a tribute to the bees that pollinate the foods we love to eat.

"When his normally strong spelling skills are challenged by a bad case of nerves during an exciting Brewster Elementary spelling bee, Henry Heckelbeck uses magic to cope, only to trigger unexpected mayhem"--

A new homeowner describes her emotional and rewarding journey over the course of a year, after she was given a colony of honeybees as a gift and learned how to care for and live alongside the fascinating creatures. A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings is a book of observation, of the irrepressible wildness of these fascinating creatures, of the ways they seem to evade our categories each time we attempt to define them. Are they wild or domestic? Individual...

Eliza demonstrates such an amazing gift for spelling any word given to her that her father Saul insists on coaching her himself. As Eliza's success continues, Saul's newfound devotion grows...causing huge changes for the entire family.

To prove that she belongs in a place where only the smartest and most useful are welcomed, twelve-year-old Yolanda learns that her survival rests on the rediscovery of a long-extinct beehive that could be the answer to everything.

When she is chosen to compete in the local spelling bee, Stacey learns that, win or lose, her words are powerful, and sometimes perseverance is the most important word of all, in this debut picture book from the iconic voting rights advocate.

The sting: Wartz's frog Greenie is afraid of Stripey the bee, but with a little help from his friends, he learns some ways to stay safe around bees. Out on a limb: It's Winslow's birthday and he decides to go where no marmoset has ever gone before. The big sneeze: Bob receives a bouquet of flowers and soon he can't stop sneezing. The itch: Bob has an itch that he thinks is caused by a poisonous plant, so he decides to investigate. Bones: After hurting...