...readers will fall in love with Anthony and his Little Queen .
This is a story extending that ancient and ongoing legacy..
The truth, of course, is that bees have been doing these things for millions of years. * * * The bees in The Little Queen may feel like fantasy to readers who think the only creatures on the planet who ache for community, plan for disaster, and know love, are human.
But the family they form is threatened by those who made her, who want ownership of the Little Queen and everything she represents.
She assumes control of Anthony\'s hive and resurrects it with extraordinary changes, then she takes Anthony in her care so he can begin to heal, too.
And then Anthony finds the Little Queen, a remarkable bee hiding a dangerous secret.
But as soon as she is gone her hive slips toward ruin.
From his dying mother Anthony inherited a beehive-and the gift to speak with bees.
Deep in the Selkirk mountains, a mysterious Queen bee fleeing the scientists who created her is rescued by, and then adopts, a boy grieving his mother\'s death, in this glowing, powerful work of speculative fiction.
When, miraculously, she discovers a new family, she\'ll fight any battle to keep it safe. - Kirkus Reviews They created her, then destroyed the thing she lived for: her children. ...readers will fall in love with Anthony and his Little Queen
