How to Bee by Bren Macdibble
Set in a future Australia in a time when there are no bees and children are employed to scramble through the fruit trees with feather wands, like the pear farmers of Hanyuan in China do today. Peony wants to be a bee, a hand pollinator. She's light, fast, and even though she's a year too young, she's going to be the best bee the farm has ever seen...except when you're only 9, it's hard to get everyone around you to go along with your plan. A beautiful and fierce novel for middle grade readers, 'How to Bee' explores an all-too-possible dystopian social landscape with an intensely compelling and original voice.How to Bee is a moving, intelligent novel, offering plenty of food for thought and a cast of appealing- and not so appealing – characters which linger with you long after the story is finished..
-- Sue Wilsher * North Somerset Teachers' Book Award blog *How to Bee is perfect. It gave me the same shivers as Skellig. Not a word is wasted and the voice is compelling. This is a future classic.
-- Louise Nettleton * Bookmurmuration blog *
Twice nominated for the Carnegie Medal, winner and shortlistee for the Australian Children's Book of the year, twice winner of New Zealand Children's Book of the Year, amongst many other accolades, Bren's books are set in climate changed worlds and can truly be described as 'award-winning'. Bren writes wild adventures for those curious about the future and hopes her stories give them courage, ideas and the language to talk about the future they'd like to see.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781910646441 |
| ISBN 10 | 191064644X |
| Title | How to Bee |
| Author | Bren Macdibble |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Old Barn Books |
| Year published | 2018-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of CBCA Book of the Year (Younger readers) 2018 (Australia), Winner of Wright Family Foundation Esther Glenn Award for Junior Fiction 2018 (New Zealand), Long-listed for North Somerset Teachers' Book Award 2018 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |