This is the first in a new series of non-fiction titles for children aged 7-10. But the busy pages with bite-size facts make the subject accessible, engaging and memorable for much older readers!

The book has been created in association with the University of Cambridge.

I've always been interested in bees, having kept honeybees for a few years. But there was so much here I didn't know!!

For example, honeybees are just one of 20,000 different species of bees in the world. And there are some weird and wonderful varieties including the blue carpenter bee, which is blue, and Wallace's giant bee which has a body as long as an adult thumb, and a mini-fairy bee which is the size of a grain of rice. 

Bees have an incredible memory, it seems, and can solve puzzles and learn tricks. Some scientists believe bees have feelings and honeybees can count to four. 

There are details of pollen and nectar and how the bees collect this for their own benefit and for that of the rest of the natural world. The production of honey is explained, and why and how bees sting, and details of some of the other types of bees as well as what we understand in their hierarchy of queen, drone and worker bees.

This is a brilliant book which will inform and entertain all ages.