Spring has sprung! Celebrate spring with a basket full of picture books about bees! Here are 15 of our favorites to get you started.
If you’re learning about bees, these books will make a great addition to your study. All of the books on this list are fiction. These books present bees in such a way that kids will find them fun and friendly.
As we head into the warmer spring and summer days, we’ll all be spending many more hours outdoors. Help eliminate your child’s fear of bees with these fun picture books about bees.
Honeybee’s Busy Day
Young children will have fun taking Honeybee from the cover pocket and setting her on the winding word path back to her beehive. This is a delightful interactive book for kids to enjoy again and again.
Every morning, Fred climbs three flights of stairs—up to his rooftop in Brooklyn, New York—and greets the members of his enormous family: “Good morning, my bees, my darlings!” His honeybee workers are busy—they tend the hive, feed babies, and make wax rooms. They also forage in flowers abloom across Brooklyn… so that, one day, Fred can make his famous honey, something the entire neighborhood looks forward to tasting.
When Mary Ellen gets bored with her reading, Grandpa knows a hunt for a bee tree is just what she needs. Half the town joins the exciting chase, but it’s not until everyone returns home that Mary Ellen makes a discovery of her own: Sometimes, even the sweetest of things must be worked for.
Through a hole in the book’s cover, a bee is buzzing inside a flower. Peek into this bright and lively book and discover the big ways this little insect contributes to the beauty of the environment, from pollinating colorful flowers to buzzing about the bright and beautiful meadow
Told from the viewpoint of a child whose Grandpa is a beekeeper, this rhyming text offers an accessible and engaging introduction to the behavior of bees. You will learn where they live, how honey is made, what a beekeeper does, and more.
The Bear family has run out of honey, and Father Bear and Small Bear are sent to get more. But rather than just get some at the store as Mother Bear suggested, Father Bear decides to follow a bee and get fresh honey from the source.
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!
George and Steve find themselves in a sticky situation when they accidentally eat all of Betsy’s delicious honeycomb for her Earth Day presentation about bees.
This grumpy little bee does not treat his neighbors very well, but something happens to him that makes him change his ways. He soon learns that treating others with kindness is the best way to earn friends.
MINE! That’s what the very greedy bee says to anyone who asks him to share. While all the other bees work hard to clean the hive and make honey, the very greedy bee spends all of his time gobbling pollen and guzzling nectar. One day the very greedy bee finds a meadow full of flowers and decides not to tell anyone. He spends the entire day buzzing from flower to flower until…THUMP. The very greedy bee is so full that he cannot fly!
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Thank you for responding. I am about to open a store and would absolutely love selling educational honey bee books but need a wholesale account with a company that sells books. I am not familiar with the companys so I am struggling trying to find a company. Thank you for what you do. God bless You!!
I am a beekeeper and go to all the festivals. I take my observation hive and teach the kids all about the bees. My goal is to inspire children to be beekeepers. I am about to get a store front and next fall have kids from school come see my bees and would absolutely love having some childrens bee books. Love love your books I saw on line. Where can I get them wholesale? My store will be everything about honey bees and honey products. I would appreciate you directing me in the right direction . Thank you Judy Wells
Thank you for responding. I am about to open a store and would absolutely love selling educational honey bee books but need a wholesale account with a company that sells books. I am not familiar with the companys so I am struggling trying to find a company. Thank you for what you do. God bless You!!
I am a beekeeper and go to all the festivals. I take my observation hive and teach the kids all about the bees. My goal is to inspire children to be beekeepers. I am about to get a store front and next fall have kids from school come see my bees and would absolutely love having some childrens bee books. Love love your books I saw on line. Where can I get them wholesale? My store will be everything about honey bees and honey products. I would appreciate you directing me in the right direction . Thank you Judy Wells
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