Peep Inside a Beehive

Name: Peep Inside a Beehive
Brand: HarperCollins New Zealand
SKU: 9781474978477
Price: 16.0 NZD
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By Anna Milbourne

Series: Peep Inside

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Peep Inside a Beehive by Anna Milbourne is a delightful children's book that introduces young readers to the fascinating world of bees. Through engaging illustrations and simple text, it explores how bees live, work together, and make honey. It's an interactive, educational journey inside a beehive that captivates curious minds.
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Format: Board book

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Help instill a love of bees in little children with this little flap book that explores their world. Peep inside flowers, beehives and under busy bees, to see what they do all day, how honey is made, how baby bees are born, and how a queen bee leads the way to build a new home.

Illustrations: Full colour throughout.

Description

Peep Inside a Beehive by Anna Milbourne offers a fascinating introduction to the world of bees. Discover how honey is made, what bees do all day, and how baby bees are born.

Featuring colourful illustrations, this book invites young readers to lift flaps and peep through holes to explore the buzzing, busy life inside a beehive.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781474978477

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Format: Board book

Date Published: 09 July 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Contributors:

Illustrated by Stephanie Fizer Coleman
Illustrated by Stephanie Fizer Coleman

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 167.0mm

Height: 192.0mm

Weight: 270g

Pages: 14

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Activity Books and Kits Anna Milbourne Children's Board Books Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Drawing, Colouring and Painting Books for Kids Gift Finder Gifts for 3 year olds Gifts for 4 year olds Gifts for 5 year olds Gifts under $100 Gifts under $20 Gifts under $30 Gifts under $50 Insects and small creatures gifts Series: Peep Inside

About the Author

Growing up on the Wirral and in Germany, Anna wrote plays about talking animals, and stories about naughty children, and drew on every available surface. After school, she did an Art Foundation course, then a degree in German Literature & Philosophy at Oxford University. In 1998 she found her perfect job at Usborne in London, writing about everything from curious penguins to trips to the Moon.

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