Honeybee
Poems & Short Prose
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · February 26, 2008
“Nye’s sheer joy in communicating, creativity, and caring shine through.”—Kirkus Reviews A moving and celebratory poetry collection from Young People’s Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye.
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- Who it’s for
- These poems find connection in bees, loved ones, strangers, memory, and the troubled world we share.
- Themes
- Human connection, Honeybees and cooperation, War, memory, and the planet
- Genres
- Poetry
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“Nye’s sheer joy in communicating, creativity, and caring shine through.”—Kirkus Reviews A moving and celebratory poetry collection from Young People’s Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye. This resonant volume explores the similarities we share with the people around us—family, friends, and complete strangers. Honey. Beeswax. Pollinate. Hive. Colony. Work. Dance. Communicate. Industrious. Buzz. Sting. Cooperate. Where would we be without honeybees?
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Where would we be without one another? In eighty-two poems and paragraphs (including the renowned Gate A-4), Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time—our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet—and leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed. Includes an introduction by the poet.
Small Things, Shared
These poems find connection in bees, loved ones, strangers, memory, and the troubled world we share.
Come here for
- Poems and short prose that move between honeybees and human kinship
- A generous attention to family, strangers, memory, and our planet
Expect
- An accessible collection of 82 poems and paragraphs
- A voice the description calls soothing, celebratory, and caring
Where it sits
| Poetry | 78% |
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Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Kids' Drama & Plays
- Family Life
- Stepfamilies
- Girls & Young Women
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- Middle East History for Kids
- The Middle East
- Poetry
- Funny Poems
- Authors
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- February 26, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Human connection · Honeybees and cooperation · War, memory, and the planet
- Reading lane
- Kids' Drama & Plays