A sweet book of love filled with die-cuts of beautiful bugs, bees, and butterflies!
Say "I love you!" with this sweet book of love! This delightful offering takes readers on a journey through a field filled with beautiful bugs, buzzy bees, and fluttering butterflies.
Patricia Hegarty began working in children's publishing more years ago than she cares to remember and is now Editorial Director at Caterpillar Books and Little Tiger Kids. As an author, the range of subjects has been wide-ranging—pirates, princesses, trees, and bees have all become firm favorites.
This book is so adorable, I may buy it as a cute lovey-dovey gag gift for my Honey-Bunny this Christmas! I'm so glad my colleague brought it to my attention; she's a first-time auntie that has been planning on baby shopping!
Artwork: 5 stars, beautiful and whimsical and colorful. M loves the ladybug in particular.
Book construction: 5 stars. This is an incredibly sturdy book, with cut outs on many pages, with the shapes of the bugs raised on opposite pages.
Actual text: ...Meh? It was sweet, the kind of thing you might want to give to someone for a shower gift...but too schmaltzy for my taste. I don't read the text at this point, I just tell M about all the bugs and flowers.
I needed some books on bees and came across this title -- not what I needed for a bee curriculum but what an expected gem of a book.
"I hope you will bee mine!" starts off the book and it goes from bees to ladybugs to fireflies to snails to caterpillar to butterflies ending with "When I am close to you, my heart truly sings!"
This charming boardbook is illustrated by Bryony Clarkson and is designed as a peek-through book. The cover has the title BEE MINE and shows two bees on the cover facing each other, holding hands, with blissful expressions (after all this is a book about love). When you turn the page, the bees are still visible and the story begins. When you turn the page there are two ladybugs on opposite pages, however when the next page is turned the two ladybugs end up next to each other -- "kiss kiss" and the pattern continues throughout the book.
This is a thick boardbook perfect for bedtime or snuggle time if your little one is still at the stage that they like kisses.