Let’s Be Bees! A Q&A with Shawn Harris About This Newly Created Storytime Staple

Back in June of 2024, I was attending the American Library Association conference in San Diego, as one does. And somewhere in the course of things I ended up at a lunch that was presenting a wide range of lovely titles. Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle and Justin Chin. The Table by Winsome Bingham and Wiley Blevins with Jason Griffin. With Dad by Richard Jackson and Brian Floca. And… a slightly odd 2025 picture book as well.

It wasn’t really like anything else I’d seen in a long time. For one ...