Review of the Day: Honeybee by Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann

Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera
By Candace Fleming
Illustrated by Eric Rohmann
Neal Porter Books (an imprint of Holiday House)
$18.99
ISBN: 978-0-8234-4285-0
Ages 3-7
On shelves now.

I don’t teach classes on how to write children’s books. I imagine that doing such a thing would be enormously challenging and rewarding, depending on the people involved. Still, that doesn’t stop me from sometimes coming up with a list of writing rules for my class of imaginary students. And as I found myself...