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Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose


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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780060853907
ISBN: 0060853905
Label: Greenwillow Books
Manufacturer: Greenwillow Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: March 01, 2008
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Studio: Greenwillow Books


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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


Honey. Beeswax. Pollinate. Hive. Colony. Work. Dance. Communicate. Industrious. Buzz. Sting. Cooperate.



Where would we be without them? Where would we be without one another?



In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time—our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet—and leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed.





Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Buzz right on past this book
Wow!
I can't believe they even published this.
Nothing worth your time or money here





Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - BuzZen
Synchronicity is when you are with a company called BuzZen and your favorite poet writes a book called Honeybee. It arrived today and I have spent the day savoring it.

"Watch us humans as we enter our rooms,remove our shoes and watches, and stretch out on the bed with a single good book. It's the honey of the mind time. Light shines through our little jars."





Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Richie's Picks: HONEYBEE
Bees Were Better

"In college people were always breaking up.
We broke up in parking lots,
beside fountains.
Two people broke up
across the table from me
at the library.
I could not sit at that table again
though I did not know them.
I studied bees, who were able
to convey messages through dancing
and could find their ways
home to their hives
even if someone put up a blockade of sheets
and boards and wire. ... Read More




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