Bee & Me

A young girl reading in her bedroom in a high-rise apartment is startled when a bee buzzes into her room but rather than swatting it she makes some food for the exhausted bee before she releases it out the window. The bee comes back and the girl again takes it in, they develop a lovely friendship, and the two fly out to the countryside to collect seeds that they sprinkle over the city to invite the wild back to the urban environment. This wordless picture book effectively conveys mood, emotion, and the author’s message of conservation, sustainability, our place in the biosphere and integrating urban and wild spaces in a child-friendly, genuine manner and lends itself to a multitude of writing and fine arts activities for grades K-7.