{"product_id":"9780061958441_honeybee","title":"Honeybee","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Nye’s sheer joy in communicating, creativity, and caring shine through.”—Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA moving and celebratory poetry collection from Young People’s Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye. This resonant volume explores the similarities we share with the people around us—family, friends, and complete strangers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoney. Beeswax. Pollinate. Hive. Colony. Work. Dance. Communicate. Industrious. Buzz. Sting. Cooperate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere would we be without honeybees? Where would we be without one another?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn eighty-two poems and paragraphs (including the renowned Gate A-4), Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time—our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet—and leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes an introduction by the poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book that asks the most important questions: How can we find our way back to one another and our world?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePoems About Kindness:\u003c\/b\u003e Inspired by the viral story “Gate A-4,” these pieces celebrate the small, powerful acts of empathy that connect us to strangers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNature and Humanity:\u003c\/b\u003e Using the honeybee as a central metaphor, Nye explores our communities, our conflicts, and what it truly means to work together.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Voice for Social Justice:\u003c\/b\u003e Facing difficult topics like war and prejudice with unflinching honesty, these poems gently ask us to look closer and care more.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Beauty of Everyday Life:\u003c\/b\u003e From a friendly postal clerk to a shared bag of cookies, discover extraordinary meaning in the most ordinary moments.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Naomi Shihab Nye","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889875341461,"sku":"9780061958441","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/x145_7e6c1467-59e6-4e44-87e3-8b3d8867bf4e.jpg?v=1769490711","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780061958441_honeybee","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}