Bear and Bee
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
After a nice long hibernation, Bear wakes up and craves some honey. When he spots a beehive in the distance, he heads right for it! Sitting on top of the beehive is Bee who graciously offers Bear some honey, but Bear is worried. He believes that bees are big, scary creatures who do not share their honey. But Bear's new friend just happens to be a bee! And Bee is small and most certainly is not scary. But do bees share honey? Turns out they do!
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Bear has never seen a bee, but he doesn't like them and has no doubt they don't play well with others. "Bees are terrible monsters!" Bear says. "They are big, and they have large teeth, and they have sharp claws, and they never share their honey!" Luckily, Bee, who is standing right in front of Bear as he unfurls this lurid fantasy, seizes this as a teachable moment, and points out that Bear actually has many of the qualities that he ascribes to bees. After some momentary confusion ("Poor me! I'm a Bee!" wails Bear, flinging himself to the ground in despair), the two become honey-sharing buddies. Ruzzier's (Tweak Tweak) cartooned pen-and-ink drawings are a bit underwhelming; the relatively minimal backgrounds only emphasize the weak characterizations (the characters' facial expressions are tepid, and putting Bee in high top sneakers is no substitute for giving him a personality). But Ruzzier has a solid sense of comic timing and proffers his lesson on the folly of prejudice with an admirably light touch. Ages 2 5.
