"Wow!" - This is how they usually react when they see this book "live". And not just because of the huge size and unusual drawings. This book turns your idea of seemingly well-known things upside down. Did you know that bees were originally carnivores and only eventually switched to nectar - and, according to legend, this is the food of the gods. In winter, these insects are able to maintain the temperature in the hive up to 34 ° C !!! Do you still think you know bees? Already not? Then this book will teach you many things.
Lesson one: the secrets of bees. Both you and the child will discover that every creature, like bees, hides many incomprehensible secrets. The world is a wonder worth discovering. We hope that this book will encourage more than one child to join the ranks of scientists.
Lesson two: socialization. The book will reveal to you the complex structure of the bee community. Each individual insect has its own mission, which is its contribution to a complex mechanism for the production of high-tech product - honey. This gives children a clear example of how a group can achieve much more than alone.
Lesson three: history. The history of bees has been connected with the history of mankind for 8,000 years, and from this book you will learn exactly how.
Lesson Four… Not everyone will receive it, but it is one of the most valuable lessons. How, without speech or communication devices, does the bee mechanism work flawlessly? Who manages a bee family of tens of thousands of bees? This is a lifelong lesson.
Impressions of those who have already had the opportunity to get acquainted with the book. Today it is Anna Rapoport (mother, philologist, local historian, teacher).
"Almost all children have tasted honey at least once in their lives. And almost all children know that bees make honey. But how do they make it? To answer this question, my children and I went a few years ago. Unfortunately, at that time we did not have the book "Bees" written by Piotr Socha. Probably with "Bees" our trip would be even more meaningful and interesting.
"Its format. It's very large. This may be to make it easier for the reader to imagine a life-size bee. On most pages, the size of the bees is roughly the same as 12-25 mm. Readers are, of course, struck by this “flicker.” There are indeed many, many bees in this book. examples of good cognitive children's books, but "Bees" will definitely be on chat of this list.
The child, of course, first of all looks at the pictures. Piotr Socha works in a very unusual style, his drawings are reminiscent of applications, posters and modern infographics. They have a lot of humor, a lot of fun and at the same time informative details. Yes, one of the most interesting and informative unfoldings of the book is called "Bionics". Here the author shows how man imitates living nature, borrowing from it different ideas: it turns out that the honeycomb has become the basis for a variety of panels with a honeycomb structure. We can find them even in snowboards and surfboards!
This book includes everything about bees that may interest a child: bees in myths and legends, the use of honey in cooking and cosmetics, varieties of bees and features of their lives, dozens of interesting facts about bees. Another important value of this book is that it is very closely connected with modern life - that which the child-reader lives here and now. Most of the books "about nature", very beautiful and interesting, tell about the life that a modern urban child can not observe - about mice and bears, fish or wildflowers. Bees and honey are a completely different thing, in supermarkets and specialty stores there is honey itself, as well as beekeeper's tools. In Piotr Socha's "Bees", whole stories are devoted to stories about bees in the city, about apiaries on trucks and even about the threat of extinction of bees due to environmental changes. "
