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Storytime in the Pollinator Garden – Booklists
These booklists, It’s All About the Bees, Products from the Hive, Wild Bees, Native Plants, and Butterflies, were created to accompany episodes of our “Storytime in the Pollinator Garden” virtual storytime series.
It’s All About the Bees
Children:
Flight of the Honey Bee by Raymond Huber
Give Bees a Chance by Bethany Barton
Beehive by Jorey Hurley
Follow That Bee! A First Book of Bees in the City by Scot Ritchie
Bees Matter by Erika Wassall
Bees by Larry Dane Brimner
Are You a Bee? by Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries
In the Trees, Honey Bees by Lori Mortensen
Busy Buzzers: Bees in Your Backyard by Nancy Loewen
These Bees Count! by Alison Formento
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming
Bees by Deirdre A. Prischmann
The Honeybee by Isabelle Arsenault
Adults:
Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees Are at Risk and What We Can Do to Save Them by Laurence Packer
The Backyard Beekeeper: an Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden by Kim Flottum
Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture by Conrad Ross
Queenspotting by Hilary Kearney
Beekeeping for Dummies by Howland Blackiston
Beginning Beekeeping: Everything You Need to Make Your Hive Thrive! by Tanya Phillips
Honeybee Hobbyist by N. E. Gary
Products from the Hive
Children:
What’s for Lunch? Honey by Pam Robson
Honey In a Hive by Anne Rockwell
Adults:
Beeswax Alchemy by Petra Ahnert
Honey, a Connoisseur’s Guide with Recipes by Gene Opton
Honey, I’m Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive Across the Centuries and Around the World by May Berenbaum
Guide to Bees and Honey by Ted Hooper
Wild Bees
Children:
The Bumblebee Queen by April Pulley Sayre
Adults:
Buzz: the Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hanson
Bees of the World by Christopher O’Toole and Anthony Raw
Our Native Bees by Paige Embry
The Bee Book by Fergus Chadwick, Steve Alton, Emma Sarah Tennant, Bill Fitzmaurice and Judy Earl
Native Plants
Children:
The Hidden Rainbow by Christie Matheson
Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate by Sara Levine
Flowers Are Calling by Rita Gray
Adults:
Native Plants of the Midwest by Alan Branhagen
Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants by Christopher Kline
The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants: An Illustrated Guide by Charlotte Adelman
Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Douglas W. Tallamy
Gardening with Prairie Plants: How to Create Beautiful Native Landscapes by Sally Wasowski
Go Native! Gardening with Native Plants and Wildflowers in the Lower Midwest by Carolyn Harstad
Easy Care Native Plants: A Guide to Selecting and Using Beautiful American Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees in Gardens and Landscapes by Patricia A. Taylor
100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive
The Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman
Planting for Honeybees: The Grower’s Guide to Creating a Buzz by Sarah Wyndham Lewis
The Bee-Friendly Garden by Kate Frey and Gretchen LeBuhn
Butterflies
Children:
Butterfly Story by Anca Hariton
A Place for Butterflies by Melissa Stewart
Butterflies in the Garden by Carol Lerner
Adults:
Birds, Bees, and Butterflies: Bringing Nature into Your Yard and Garden by Nancy J. Hajeski
