Can You find 12 Busy Bees ?
1st June 2019
Can You find 12 Busy Bees ?
Following on from the award-winning Can You Find Me?, Can You Find 12 Busy Bees? brings children closer to nature and the environment. In this elegant picture book children will enjoy learning to count with the gorgeous flora and fauna on every page.
Can You find 12 Busy Bees ? .....Reviews
Beautiful watercolour illustrations abound in this nature focussed picture book with lots to spot on every page. I particularly enjoyed spotting the 10 rowdy rainbow lorikeets and I'm looking forward to reading this to my future grandchildren, helping them to be more aware of the wildlife around them.
Good Reads United Kingdom Bev https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/47539973-12-busy-bees
“Beautiful!”
Thank you to the publishers for this review copy.
You can learn to count, learn a little about nature and admire these wonderful illustrations.
An absolutely beautiful book which I am very happy to recommend on to... More
Hardback edition
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Can You Find 12 Busy Bees?
Gordon Winch
Patrick Shirvington
New Frontier, 2019
9781925594560
In 2017, Gordon Winch and Patrick Shirvington presented our youngest readers with an introduction to some of this country’s native fauna and flora in the hauntingly beautiful Can You Find Me?. Now they have teamed up again to delve closely into what might be living in the garden with this new counting book that is as stunning as the first.
Beginning with some of the larger creatures such as the blue-tongued lizard and kookaburras, young readers are enticed to look more and more closely at the illustrations to discover just what might be hiding amongst the trees, bushes, flowers and leaves, culminating in a challenge to find all of them in the final spread. As well as the introduction to iconic creatures and enabling the reader to practise their counting skills, like the first book, it encourages them to look more closely at their environment and see it with new eyes, to appreciate it more and perhaps even preserve it more carefully.
A counting book that does so much more than help little ones count.
DOODLES
Always doodling in the studio, looking for new characters for upcoming book.
These series of sketches were working on the character of Pat Simmons book Little Spiral
Who ? Who ? is destroying the earth around me ?
Look towards the light…the shadows stay behind
Having a chat along the way