You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Bees!

You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Bees! takes readers ages 8-12 years on a historical journey, examining how people coped in the past and how they developed ingenious ways to make life safer and less unpleasant. This book features full-color cartoon-style illustrations and hilarious speech bubbles to heighten interest, making the series attractive even to reluctant readers. Without bees, we would, of course, have no honey. But we'd also lose a lot of other foods and useful products like cotton produced by plants that bees pollinate. Around half the fruit and vegetables in our supermarkets would disappear! Not only that, but we would also lose the animals that eat these plants, and the animals that eat those animals! Some people fear bees, but there's rarely any need to be. Bees will sting in self-defense, but usually they don't disturb humans. Yet we need them. As far as important species are concerned, bees are at the top of the list – you really wouldn't want to live without them!