by hatfield13

THE HIVE DETECTIVES: CHRONICLE OF A HONEY BEE CATASTROPHE

My friend and critique partner, Loree Griffin Burns, has written a book that I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting to share with you, and it’s out now.  It’s called THE HIVE DETECTIVES: CHRONICLE OF A HONEY BEE CATASTROPHE, and it’s about the mystery of honeybee colony collapse and what scientists are discovering about it.  It’s part of Houghton Mifflin’s Scientists in the Field series, and like Loree’s TRACKING TRASH, it is told in a narrative nonfiction style that is impossible to put down. The photography is amazing, too. Here’s the cover…

Isn’t that just stunning?  The inside is full of more amazing photographs and information that is so, so important to those of us who wonder about our environment, our interactions with nature, and where our food comes from, too.  This is a great book, well-written and compelling and fascinating, and it’s an important book, too.  Don’t miss it.

11 Replies on “THE HIVE DETECTIVES: CHRONICLE OF A HONEY BEE CATASTROPHE”

  1. Kate, honey, you are the buzz! I mean, the bomb. Thank you for helping to spread the word. And thank you for helping to make this the absolute best book it could be. I am so blessed in the critique partner department!

    Loree
    xo

  2. Oh, I love that cover, too, how it just welcomes us into that world. Where the words teach us so much. I loved my first reading and look forward to going back through it soon: so packed with important information. I cared about bees before, but it’s much more both intimate and educated now.

    It’s so wonderful to see a manuscript you saw on paper become a book. Though you’re right, the waiting part isn’t so easy!

    And is Loree going to call everybody honey now?

  3. That looks like a wonderful book, but when I first saw the headline, I thought “Maybe this could be the answer to my mom’s idiopathic two-year case of hives!”

  5. I just love that Scientists in the Field series! Each author just brings science, scientists and their work to life! I put The Hive Detectives on my book fair wish list.

    Brenda