Enjoyed reading this excellent educational introduction to honeybees! As a former children's librarian for many years, I know that after this book is introduced to students, it will become an instant hit!

Great photographs and writing tell the story of a honeybee rescue. It's also full of information about the behavior, science and importance of bees. It's perfectly suited to teach the young reader in an engaging and enjoyable way. Great addition to our library! Thank you to Charlesbridge publishing and NetGalley for the ARC!

Burns has filled "Honeybee Rescue" with beautiful photographs and diagrams to show readers what the life of a honeybee looks like. The story makes learning about honeybees an engaging experience and many students were excited to begin read. Overall a wonderful non-fiction picture book for a wide range of readers!

Most books that we get about bees stress the role that they play in nature and their behavior within the hive, and frankly that's what I was expecting from this book. Instead, Burns focuses on manufactured hives and bees on the small farm. We are presented with a particular case of a group that has swarmed and is establishing a new hive in a barn. Through simple prose we learn why it needs to be moved and the careful process used to safely relocate them. It's a more subtle way to teach about bee behavior.

This was a really cute book that I loved reading together with my son! Not only is it a really important story with a really important message, but it was also really really cute!!! We loved it. It is definitely more science-y than expected, because the pictures are actual photographs instead of illustrations like I expected. It is an educational book about honey bees, the environment they live in, and the process of rescuing bees that need to be relocated. It offers a lot of insight into bees and helped both me and my little one understand bees a little better. Definitely would recommend to any parent!

I wasn't expecting all the real amazing pictures!

It surprised me and I had such a fun time reading the book. The writing is perfect for the reading age group.

The book basically aims to educate the young readers about bees, their colonies, and how beekeepers take care.

Love the presentation.

The pages are fun to read and quite informative.

I had a good time reading the interview of the author towards the end.

I appreciate the inclusion of the glossary to explain all the basic terms when it comes to bee rescue.

Thank you, Charlesbridge, for the advance reading copy.

I just can't get enough of bee books this year. This is a great one. I loved the use of real pictures to show what was going on, and the clear, easy to understand explanations of what it takes to save a colony of bees. I could practically smell the beeswax in this book!

This non-fiction book follows Mr. Nelson as he removes a honeybee swarm from Mr. Connery’s garage. He goes through the process of how he removes each section of comb carefully after vacuuming the bees off using his custom vacuum. The photographs are helpful to understand the process for anyone not familiar with honeybees.

My fiancé and I are beekeepers and we have captured a swarm of our own, albeit from a tree and not one that already started producing honeycomb. This is a great book to educate.

Thank you to NetGalley and Charlesbridge for allowing me to read an ARC of this novel. #NetGalley #Charlesbridge #HoneybeeRescue

Mr. Connery woke up one morning to discover a colony of bees, had made a home in his run-down barn. Feeling they did not have adequate protection from the weather, he called Mr. Nelson to rescue and move the bees to a safer place. This book tells the story through words and photographs, about all the work that goes into rescuing a colony of bees.
Honeybees are important to everyday life. This book helps teach children the importance of saving bees, and to not be afraid, just because they have stingers. There is a glossary and further reading, for families that are interested in learning more about honeybees.

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. A great informational book on how beehives are sometimes rescued and moved elsewhere.

I just happened up on an offer for an advance reading copy of a book that has many levels of being intriguing. The first to hit my eye was the title, Honeybee Rescue: A Backyard Drama, by Loree Griffin Burns with photography by Ellen Harasimowicz. Since I have an overwhelming interest in nature and a grandfather who used to keep bees, I needed to see.

The book is listed as kindergarten to third grade, but I would put absolutely no upper limit on it. The true story and photographs follow Mr. Connerly, a beekeeper who finds a colony in an unsafe rundown garage, and Mr. Neilson, an expert bee rescuer as they move the bees into a better place. It would be hard to choose whether the narrative information or the beautiful photographs are the best parts of the book. They mesh well together and are fascinating even to people like me who have long since put third grade in the rear window.

My special favorites were the diagrams and pictures of the layers of the beehive and the vacuum cleaner that the writer calls a “honeybee sucker-upper” that captures the bees and keeps them safe for the move. The fun is not even over when the story is finished. There is an interesting interview with Jon Nelson, the bee rescuer, revealing his start on this activity when he was a kid. The glossary helps the individual reader and will be good for a science class reading the book together. The author’s note is yet another interesting story of how this book came to be. In her sources, Loree identifies herself as a beekeeper and cites information from other beekeepers and researchers. Good selections for further reading round out the back matter. All the words and photographs beginning with the title and ending with the copyright information at the end were intriguing.

The beekeeper missed that one of his hives felt crowded and had swarmed to a rickety garage, when he discovered it, he called a specialist to find a safer place and move them. The specialist knows just what to do and even has specialized equipment that he had patented. Soon the task was done! Next follows further explanations and even a glossary. Terrific nonfiction resource!
The photographs by Ellen Harasimowicz are clear and informative. Every public and school library needs a copy!
I requested and received a free temporary e-book on Adobe Digital Editions from Charlesbridge via NetGalley. Thank you!

This non-fiction picture book about beehives, beekeepers, and the importance of protecting the honeybees was a great mix of narration and facts. I really enjoyed the author's experiences, as well as the information that the beekeeper shared about why he got into the field of beekeeping.

This would be a great non-fiction book to add to any library's collection.

Mr. Connery is an experienced beekeeper, maintaining wooden hive boxes in his backyard. So when he discovers a bee swarm in his ramshackle barn, Mr. Connery knows that his bees have outgrown their hive and it is time to stack an additional hive box on top of the older one so the bees can spread out. But first he needs to deal with the swarm in the barn. And for that he calls Mr. Nelson, a beekeeper who specializes in removing bee swarms so that people don't exterminate these important pollinators. In between the account of Mr. Connery and Mr. Nelson saving the barn swarm, Burns provided all kinds in bee information from why they swarm, the structure of a hive, how a bee vacuum works so the bees are kept safe, and how a bee rescuer gets the bees and any honeycomb they may have started safely into hive boxes. We just had a bee swarm in Manhattan the other day, so this was a great time to read this book to my young readers. The writing is simple but informative, and generative lots of discussion. The photographs, with some great bee close-ups, really add so much to the information and framing the bee rescue in a story helped my young readers, some of whom are afraid of bees. Back matter includes an interview with Mr. Nelson, and a Glossary of terms used, as well as an Author's Note about her interest in bee rescue. Burns does a brilliant job of sticking with the concept of bee rescue, so if you want to know more about the life and work of honeybees, pair this with Candace Fleming's Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera.

Honeybee Rescue
Author Lorene Griffin Burns
Photography by Ellen Harasimowicz

Charlesbridge
Children's Nonfiction
| Science


Book has great in action photos

Explains hive crowding and why bees move and create new hives

A brief description of the hive scripture and how the bees create the wax used for the comb.

Modern day bee keepers and how hives are moved safely.

Details on a new vacuums and how it works and how it was built

The authors interview notes are worth reading as well - an adorable true story of how a bee hive was saved and a few details on the actual catching of the bees.

Book offers a list of books for further reading on bees.

I would recommend this to a someone doing a report on bees. Or even as a base to a homeschool unit on bees. I gave this book 5 stars.

Thank you NetGalley and Charlesbridge Publishing for the e-book to review

Bees are always a great topic in the elementary classroom and this is a great real-life, non-fiction read with great photos. Honeybee Rescue is ideal for teaching about bees' role in pollination, their behavior and habitat. It also introduces students to the job of a bee rescuer and their important tasks.

Honeybee Rescue is a well photographed and written story for young readers about honeybees, their behavior, and biodiversity by Loree Griffin Burns. Due out 31st May 2022 from Charlesbridge, it's 40 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats.

This is an engaging true story of honeybee rescue and some basic beekeeping info. It's told in simple language which everyone can understand and shows bees as helpful and important and not scary (as long as they're treated gently with respect). The author has done a superlative job of explaining swarming behavior and how beekeepers rescue bee colonies which have set up housekeeping in unwanted places.

The book is lavishly and clearly photographed in color throughout. I especially liked seeing Mr. Nelson's bee vacuum with which he gently gathers all the lost bees to move them safely into their new home.

Five stars. This would make a great selection for public or school library acquisition as well as for young science and nature interested readers. The author has also included an abbreviated bibliography for further reading.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

Hello bees! Every reader will be saying this when they finish Honeybee Rescue by Loree Griffin Burns. This charming picture book about Mr. Connery and Mr. Nelson rescuing the bees from a dilapidated barn was informative and engaging. It made this reviewer want to go out and save some bees! A lovely book for readers of all ages, I highly recommend Honeybee Rescue for your next read. I give it 4.5 stars.

This book is a very global introduction into honeybee rescue. It has a lot of photos to go with the story, and everything is explained decently, but I wish it would have gone a bit more in depth/would have had some more information. I get that it's for children, but little me would have been disappointed that I hadn't learned more. It's also very region specific and while there is a small caveat about some areas having to deal with bees differently because there are more aggressive species, I feel like this is rather glossed over. I feel like in a way this book encourages children to "play with"/ hold/touch bees, and that can be quite dangerous.

This book was so fascinating! If you’ve ever wondered how a beehive is removed from where you don’t want it, like in your garage or attic, this is the book for you. The photographs are great and really help with explaining the process. We really enjoyed learning about the process. This book would be a great addition to a classroom or library.