Bee Who Could Not Choose Her Flower

Excellent book. Teaches many things at a level a young child can understand.

My granddaughter loved it!

This book is so cute and it’s such a good visual for kids about making choices. My 4 year old is a perfectionist and gets stuck making choices. This really resonated with him. When he gets stuck I reference this book and he is able to snap out of the deer in headlights look and go back to being logical.

This book is very well made, quality hardback, rich colors, attractive design. The writing is melodic, the words are on the left side page, the art work on the right side page. The sentences are just long enough to match the level of detail in the artwork that a child's interest will be held until the sentences are read. I like the incorporation on the breathing exercise in the beginning, an especially helpful practice as children gather for storytime to help them calm and quiet. At the end of the story there is a prompt to guide a conversation with the children about choices, there is a sticker page to use to share with the little listeners a sticker button, and little star stickers to post on the back inside cover where there are stars across a sky scene where the child would place a star sticker in the star space in the scene to mark every time they read the book. It is very interactive to teach and to entertain.

Realtionship is the glue that binds us all together. How do you celebrate the choices in life yet encapsulate the need for finding who we are and making a connection from there. Andrew Newman, poet and storyteller highlights important life lessons and opens the door for those of all ages to explore in a new way. The pictures are delightful and engaging and the weave of the story unravels in colour to the celebration of us all.

We live in a world filled with distracting "pretty flowers" that can capture our attention. How do we choose among them, and how do we honor the choice we make? This is another lovely story by Andrew Newman, sure to capture a child's attention and impart some good wisdom along the way.

The way this book shows the difficulty of live is wonderful. It is deep, without being hard to understand, Funny and charming with a lot of content. It is a beautiful gift for children, who will not only get the nice story, but also some of the wisdom in it. And it leaves adults with a smile.

The story is about making decisions, I guess. It's about a female worker bee who can't make up her mind on which flower to get pollen, flies all day and never chooses a flower, comes back to hive feeling ashamed and ends up sleeping on the floor of the hive. Next day, she picks a flower quickly just to be a productive bee.Okay, first off - drone bees are always male; why did he have to make the character in a story about indecision be a girl? But also, it wasn't fun to read and missed out on actually giving kids helpful tools or giving encouragement about being decisive for any other reason than fitting in. (Yuck!)The gratuitous change of gender of the bee to fit a stereotype bothers me, but I could have overlooked it as an attempt to create random diversity in characters except for the fact that the story was depressing and didn’t actually teach anything I want to impart.I wanted to like this and others from the collection but they feel preachy. They honestly feel like what would happen if a Christian minister who had no kids and had never read a children’s book before decided to write books for children about values. The art is pretty but the writing doesn't stand alone - it doesn't flow, isn't fun to read, and just feels weird to me.

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