A Hive For The Honeybee
Out of the great lyrical tradition of Irish writing comes this astonishing tale: the story of a group of bees more moving than most human characters in contemporary fiction. With the help of two unusual, philosophical drones, worker bees Thora and Belle begin to look at their lives in a radical...
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Out of the great lyrical tradition of Irish writing comes this astonishing tale: the story of a group of bees more moving than most human characters in contemporary fiction. With the help of two unusual, philosophical drones, worker bees Thora and Belle begin to look at their lives in a radical new way.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780590510455 (0590510452)
Publish date: May 1st 2001
Publisher: Scholastic Books
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Written by Lauder Hansen Soinbhe Lally’s allegorical novel, A Hive for the Honeybee, is a beautiful tale about one little worker bee who learns idleness and thankfulness through her friends, Alfred, Mo, and Belle, in a working-centered society. The story begins when we meet Thora, a small house ...
I read this book again, because I remember loving it when I was about eleven. The weird thing was, I remembered nothing of it and found it to be quite adult in nature. Nevertheless I enjoyed reading it again.