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Article: Naomi Shihab Nye: Honeybee.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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Naomi Shihab Nye Honeybee 164 pp. Greenwillow 3/08 ISBN 978-0-06-085390-7 $16.99 Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-085391-4 $17.89 (Middle School)
In her introduction, Nye talks about the recent mysterious disappearances of honeybees across the country; the constant rushing-around, "busy bee" climate of American society; and the importance of "dipping and diving down into the nectar of scenes" and sweet moments. The eighty-two poems and prose paragraphs that follow cover Nye's familiar, distinctive territory--prejudice, kindness, war, peace, Arab Americans. In some but not all of the poems, bee-related words (nectar, hover, stung), bee facts, and bees themselves buzz in and ...
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