A Taste of Honey

by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

One day, Lily Bear asks her grandfather where the honey they are eating comes from. Poppy traces it back to Mike’s Market, then to the honey farm, the beekeeper, the honeycomb, and all the way back to . . . bees! This delightful story is filled with diagrams and sidebars that show all of the steps in making honey and answers all of the questions a child would ask, in just the right order.

Genres: Picture Books, Nonfiction, Childrens

32 pages, Paperback

First published April 9, 2001

About the author

Nancy Elizabeth Wallace attended the University of Connecticut, and majored in sociology and psychology with a minor in art history, then continued on for a master’s degree in child development.

For many years, she worked at Yale-New Haven Hospital with children and teenagers as Child Life Specialist helping children to understand what was going to happen if they needed to have a medical test or an operation or a cast.

Then she took two adult education courses, one was about traditional Scherenschnitt (share- en -sssh -nit) scherren means scissors, schnitt means cut. The other was about writing and illustrating children’s books. When she brought in a
cut-paper illustration, the teacher said, “You’ve found your medium!”

Nancy is married to Peter Banks. They have been married for more than 30 years. He is a high school Physics teacher.

They live in Branford, Connecticut.

Reviews

[Sawy-o]

Amazing book for Science Storytimes! I like to do a collective craft/ activity afterwords where kids work on building a honeycomb together out of cut up toilet paper rolls and tape. Very simple but they get a kick out of working together.

[Kelly Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was such a great book to read to Pre K-1 about the process of making honey. So many fun bee facts!

[Christi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not as good as her other books.

[Cws]

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[Macy · Rating 1 out of 5]

A little old for me...