Subtitled “A Children's Guide to Bees,” this delightful program takes a kid-friendly look at the amazing world of the honeybee. Narrated by a beekeeper and several young children (sometimes in a Q&A format), and punctuated by songs and rhymes, City of Bees is a sublime film, bringing a sense of wonder to the intricate details of the insect's life and featuring in-flight shots simulating the bee's journey as it makes its rounds from flower to flower. Viewers will learn that each beehive is essentially one house with a very large family (with one mommy—the queen bee), the various purposes of the honeycomb (such as storage of honey, and birth chambers for young bees), and the fact that a bee visits as many as 1,000 or more flowers to collect a single batch of nectar to bring back to the hive, where other bees help process it to create honey. Kids and adults alike are sure to be charmed by City of Bees, which features DVD extras including a lesson plan and a photo gallery. Highly recommended. Editor's Choice. Aud: K, E, P. (C. Block)
City of Bees
(2005) 30 min. DVD: $49.95. Choices, Inc. PPR. Color cover. ISBN: 1-933724-02-1. Volume 21, Issue 5
City of Bees
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