Nyes sheer joy in communicating, creativity, and caring shine through.Kirkus ReviewsA moving and celebratory poetry collection from Young Peoples Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye. This resonant volume explores the similarities we share with the people around usfamily, friends, and complete strangers.Honey. Beeswax. Pollinate. Hive. Colony. Work. Dance. Communicate. Industrious. Buzz. Sting. Cooperate.Where would we be without honeybees? Where would we be without one another?In eighty-two poems and paragraphs (including the renownedGate A-4), Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our timeour loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planetand leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed.Includes an introduction by the poet.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book is aimed at children at US 5th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published in 2022 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet and anthologist and the acclaimed author of Habibi: A Novel and Sitti's Secrets, a picture book, which was based on her own experiences visiting her beloved Sitti in Palestine. Her book 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has taught writing and worked in schools all over the world, including in Muscat, Oman. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.