Buzz-Buzz, Busy Bees (Animal Sounds Book Series)

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Author: Dawn Bentley

ISBN-10: 0689868480

ISBN-13: 9780689868481

Category: Fiction & Literature

Buzz-Buzz, Busy Bees makes learning animal sounds simple and fun. Children will love the rhyming story and all the fuzzy touch-and-feel bees who buzz by all their barnyard friends!

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Buzz-Buzz, Busy Bees makes learning animal sounds simple and fun. Children will love the rhyming story and all the fuzzy touch-and-feel bees who buzz by all their barnyard friends!Publishers WeeklyWhat the team did for colors in their Good Night, Sweet Butterflies, they now do for sound in Buzz-Buzz, Busy Bees: An Animal Sounds Book by Dawn Bentley, illus. by Heather Cahoon. Beginning with nine bees, when each sturdy page is turned, a fuzzy bee, peeking through a die-cut hole, flits off the page. Various barnyard animals entreat the bees to stay, but the response is always the same: " `Oink-Oink!' says Pig. `Would you like to have some fun?' `Buzz-Buzz!' says Bee. `I really have to run!' " When the last page is turned, a cacophonous buzz greets readers. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

\ Publishers WeeklyWhat the team did for colors in their Good Night, Sweet Butterflies, they now do for sound in Buzz-Buzz, Busy Bees: An Animal Sounds Book by Dawn Bentley, illus. by Heather Cahoon. Beginning with nine bees, when each sturdy page is turned, a fuzzy bee, peeking through a die-cut hole, flits off the page. Various barnyard animals entreat the bees to stay, but the response is always the same: " `Oink-Oink!' says Pig. `Would you like to have some fun?' `Buzz-Buzz!' says Bee. `I really have to run!' " When the last page is turned, a cacophonous buzz greets readers. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \ \ \ \ Children's LiteratureFive black and yellow striped bees with happy faces are inset in this die-cut board book. Since bees do sting, and some of us are even quite allergic to bee stings, I was curious to see how this book handled the subject of bees. Rooster, horse, sheep, and cow all invite the bees to play, but the bees are much too busy. At the end, a female farmer holds a jar of honey and thanks the bees for a job well done. There may be a bit of explanation needed by adults reading this book to children, since bees gather nectar, take it to a hive, and then honey is collected—they do not deposit it in a jar. The number of bees decreases from five to one, so the book can be used for counting backwards, but kids to whom the book would appeal are probably not even counting to five. The subtitle states that this is "An Animal Sounds Book" and each spread features the sounds of both the bees and the animals inviting them to play. A bit of a mixed bag—good for animal sounds, overly simplistic in the descriptions of bees place in the honey cycle, and probably too advanced in reference to counting. 2006, Little Simon/Simon & Schuster, Ages 1 to 3. \ —Marilyn Courtot\ \