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A native bee, the bumblebee. takes a starring role in this nonfiction picture book about the bumblebee's life cycle and natural history. Learn how a queen bumblebee digs out of the ground and starts her year all alone yet builds a colony by summer's end.
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"The bumblebee queen begins the spring below ground and all alone..."
-Excerpt

The Bumblebee Queen ISBN 1-57091-362-5

A nonfiction picture book illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne, Charlesbridge, 2005.

Winner, John Burroughs Award

"The Bumblebee Queen is a captivating picture book for children ages 3-8...The book supports National Science Education Content Standards for structure and function and life cycles."
-NSTA Recommends

"Engaging watercolors keep time with a simple, easy-to-read text describing the life cycle of a bumblebee queen..." Review by Patricia Manning.
-School Library Journal

"...this makes nourishing fare for young observers of nature." -Kirkus Reviews

Here's a bumblebee in our garden. I often see many different kinds of bumblebees. They have different numbers and widths of black stripes on their bodies. This one is feeding on butterfly milkweed.

The art in the book is gorgeous and must be seen to be believed. Patricia is a highly skilled scientific illustrator.

This book has been a big hit for elementary read alouds. Young children enjoy learning about small creatures such as the fuzzy bumblebees. Educators particularly like the tidbits of information in the small sidebars on each page.

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