The Children's Life of the Bee

Maurice Maeterlinck and Alfred Sutro

On the threshold of the hive, everything is about to happen: the swarm, the founding of the city, the young queens. Maeterlinck's famous meditation on bees, arranged for children by Sutro and Williams, keeps its wonder and drops its difficulty, with Detmold's exquisite illustrations. Nature writing at its most regal. Enter the hive. Please note: this is the text of the story only. It has no pictures, so it is meant for a grown-up to read aloud rather than for a child to read alone. The illustrated experience of this story is the audiobook edition on Littletone.