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Honey Bee Books for Kids

Bee Books

Buzz into learning with our delightful collection of honey bee books for kids! Explore engaging stories and fascinating facts that teach children about the vital role bees play in our ecosystem. Perfect for young readers eager to discover the wonders of pollination and the importance of protecting our buzzing friends.

Honey Bee Books for Kids: A collection of non-fiction readers to explore the amazing path of these pollinators

My kids have noticed the honey bees and butterflies pollinating our garden. We could spend hours watching and listening to the hum of the bees.  

On our most recent trip to the library, we searched for Honey Bee Books.  

Here are a few of the bee books that we have enjoyed:

Bee Books for Kids
  • Non-Fiction Bee Books for Kids
  • Fiction Bee Books for Kids
  • Bee Activities for Kids

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Honey bees are fascinating creatures that can teach children about the importance of pollination and the natural world. Reading about honey bees can help children develop a love of reading and learning.

Did you know that honey bees are often seen as symbols of hard work and cooperation? This can be a positive message for children to learn about.

Reading about honey bees can help children develop empathy for other living things. You could even make this adorable Bumble Bee Craft to go along with your bee books!

One thing is for sure, honey bees are an important part of our ecosystem, and reading about them can help children learn about the importance of protecting the environment.

Here are our favorite books about bees for kids…

Non-Fiction Bee Books for Kids

This book is chuck full of bee facts for kids. It covers a wide range of topics including the types of honey bees, body parts, how the city of bees works, and the dance of the bees.  My kids enjoyed reading the facts a little bit at a time.

Read more about the book Bees: Wild Reads on Amazon.

Geared for upper elementary, this book highlights a real problem: diminishing bee colonies.  My kids connected with the photographs and it opened up a very good dinner table discussion on the importance of bees and the role they play in our food supply.   “How come we didn’t know about this problem before?” my kids wanted to know.  

Read more about the bee book The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery on Amazon.

My kids were interested in learning more about the Buzz on these disappearing honey bees. This book re-iterated much of what we had read about in the Case of the Vanishing Honeybees. It was presented in a more simple, readable text for younger learners. 

Click to read more about the bee book The Buzz on Bees: Why Are They Disappearing?

Take a class field trip to visit the bees – from your very own couch.  Listen and learn alongside the children in Mr. Tate’s classroom. Ask your children, what questions they would ask the beekeeper, then read to see if their questions were answered. Making a K-W-L chart would be a great writing and literacy connection.

Click to read more about the bee book These Bees Count!

Follow along on a worker bee’s journey in search of pollen and nectar. After reading this story, set out some dress-up costume props and fake flowers for the children to pretend to be the bee in search of nectar. Large yellow shirts with black duct tape stripes and a triangle stinger make fast and easy costumes.

Click to read more about the bee book Flight of the Honey Bee (Read and Wonder)

Gail Gibbons is a favorite author and illustrator of ours. She has a way of making non-fiction beautiful through her delightfully calming illustrations. Read this book to find out how bees work together to make honey.

Click to read more about this bee book The Honey Makers

Travel along with a child and his Grandpa and learn all about beekeeping. Read These Bees Count along with this story and compare what the children learn and experience in both books.  

You cannot miss the cute video Amazon reviewer Nicholas submitted for this book The Beeman. It is SO cute!

The books in this series are great introductions to basic science questions kids are curious about.  Informative and fun is the best way to describe this bee book for kids ages 5-8.  Connect this with a craft project and you have a morning of learning fun.

 Click to find out more about the bee book Are You a Bee? (Backyard Books)

My kids like to read books independently and step 1 readers provide opportunities for young children to interact with the same vocabulary and academic concepts in a more readable text.  This book uses simple, repetitive sentences with strong picture support that allows more confident early readers to read on their own.   

DK Readers: Busy, Buzzy Bee (Level 1: Beginning to Read)

Make it hands on learning using a sensory play bin and let children pretend to be bees with this Bee Pollination Activity!

Fiction Bee Books for Kids

The Honeybee by Kirsten Hall

Please Please the Bees by Gerald Kelley

What If There Were No Bees? by Suzanne Slade

Bee: A Peek-Through Picture Book by Britta Teckentrup

Little Bee by IglooBooks

Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming

The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco

Willbee the Bumblebee by Craig Smith and Maureen Thomson

The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive by Joanna Cole

Bee Activities for Kids

Connect Honey Bee Books with Educational Activities

  • Magnetic Bee Crafts and Science Activity
  • Potato Stamping Bee
  • Making DIY Bee Math Counters
  • Magnetic Wand Bee Hive
  • DIY Bee Counters
  • Learning About Pollination with Kids
magnetic bee craft
DIY bee math counters
bee science activities for preschool

We bee books are you going to read first? Share your favorite in the comments below!

Honey Bee Books for Kids

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Comments

  1. Devany LeDrew says

    May 20, 2015 at 6:23 am

    I love the magnetic wand idea!

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