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OMFG, BEES!

Bees Are So Amazing and You're About to Find Out Why

by Matt Kracht
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Are you ready for the ultimate bee book? With lighthearted watercolor and ink drawings, humorous quips, lists, and musings, OMFG, BEES! will show you just how important these esteemed bee-list celebrities really are. (Hint: We can't live without them.)
Delving into various bee topics, from distinguishing between bees and not bees (very crucial), to exploring the absolute wonder that is bee behavior (they do a coded dance directing their bee friends to food, for crying out loud!), to divulging the mind-blowing bee-magic behind honey making (within some extremely intricate and precisely constructed hexagonal honeycomb, no big deal), and more, Kracht's ode to bees paints a charming and enthusiastic picture of our favorite pollinators.
Bee-autiful full-color illustrations fill these pages that playfully and earnestly examine different kinds of bees, from the honeybee to the teddy bear bee, providing unbelievably cool facts about bees and reasons why they deserve a lot more credit as well as our appreciation and advocacy. Because omfg, BEES!!

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  • Release date

    March 28, 2023

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781797223001

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781797223001
      • File size: 16841 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      March 1, 2023
      Whether readers love or fear bees, this volume will teach most everyone something new about our fuzzy, flitting friends while making readers laugh out loud. Kracht, author of the bestselling The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (2019), is back with another gloriously funny book about crucial and endangered pollinators. Bees are fascinating little creatures, and they are essential to life on our planet, but sometimes they get an undeserved bad rap. Kracht sets the record straight in this hilarious handbook that can easily be read in one sitting. Kracht's style is somehow simultaneously irreverent and genuine. He is very excited about bees and eager to impart his knowledge, yet he is determined to do so in the most silly and memorable way imaginable in a book chock-full of comically informative illustrations. A joy to read, Kracht's bees book leaves readers smiling and in possession of a thorough understanding of these important insects. Though written for adults, it will certainly inspire a childlike appreciation for our natural world and our life-sustaining bee neighbors.

      COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

    • Library Journal

      October 1, 2023

      The energy of artist and author Kracht (Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America) pours from these pages, with text and illustrations enhanced by arrows, underlining, and circled words. While often employing bold turns of phrase (northern giant hornets are "murdering bastards"), there is solid science here too, such as Kracht's descriptions of the seven classes of bees. Bee jobs (worker; drone), bee smarts, cool bees, and a list of "Bees I'd Like To Hang Out With" are all here as well, delivered with plenty of swearing and a boatload of exclamation points. Final chapters cover the environmental benefits of bees, bee-friendly flowers, and how to support a healthy bee ecosystem. VERDICT Playful watercolors and bee-enhanced modifications to classic art add to the humorous text.

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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