The Bee

by Fuhr, Ute; Sautai, Raoul

• ISBN13: 9781851034499
• ISBN10: 1851034498
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2017-06-01
• Publisher: My First Discoveries

Summary

This book provides children with a fascinating insight into the life of bees. Captivatingly detailed illustrations reveal how these insects gather nectar and make honey, how they communicate with each other, build their hives and keep them clean, how they reproduce and rear their young and form new hives. We also learn about their cousins the wasps, who make their nests out of a kind of paper mâché, and we explore inside a termites’ nest. Twelve transparent overlay pages reveal further hidden surprises. This title forms part of the My First Discoveries series, a unique collection of highly illustrated information books for children aged 4 to 7 that aims to awaken children’s interest in the wonders of the natural, physical, and human world around them.

Author Biography

Raoul Sautai and Ute Fuhr formed an author-illustrator team co-producing more than 10 titles for the My First Discoveries collection for Moonlight Publishing and Gallimard Jeunesse over a 20-year period. Raoul Sautai taught at the Art School in Le Havre from 1962 before becoming its director in 1988. He also worked for an advertising agency during this period and for a photo studio specialized in still life images. Illustration and painting always played a central role in his work. He died in January 2010. Ute Fuhr graduated in visual and audiovisual communication from the Nice School of Decorative Arts in 1984. She produces audiovisual information programs for the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, and also works on advertising graphics, based on illustration and painting. She carries out ongoing research into the mediatization of reality. Illustration and the relationship between text and image currently form the focus of her professional interest.