City of Bees: A Children’s Guide to Bees

Product Description

This live-action program explores the secret, complex world of honeybees from a child’s point of view.

Explore the secret, complex world of honeybees from a child’s point of view. Six-year-old Oliver and his young friends join a beekeeper as he cares for his beehives over the course of a year. The children study everything from how a queen bee rules the hive, the various jobs each bee performs, how bees pollinate and how bees can fly at amazing speeds. With colorful imagery, learning activities, and remarkable up-close video, viewers of all ages will be enchanted and informed about the remarkable world that is the City of Bees.

Reviews:
Highly Recommended, Editor’s Choice. Kids and adults alike are sure to be charmed by City of Bees, which features DVD extras including a lesson plan and a photo gallery. –Video Librarian, Sept.Oct. 2006

The program presents information from a beekeeper’s point of view rather than a child’s, with occasional child-like aspects included, and this works out just fine. Vocabulary is often quite advanced. Intriguing facts about bees are coupled with amazing photography. The narrator has a slight accent but is easily understood. The DVD has a photo gallery of stills from the production, allows instructors to display subtitles, and offers lesson plans correlated to National Standards. A great way to supplement the science curriculum. –School Library Journal, August 2006

An adult with two young assistants provides the monologue through this visually captivating and illuminating DVD about the lives of bees. In a way it’s a shame that this DVD is geared toward young viewers, because this adult reviewer learned a great deal about bees from watching; I think most of us would. I especially liked the summary of bee products, notably for propolis, which I did not know functions as an antiseptic in this tightly organized society that could be easily decimated by infectious disease. But the vocabulary and diction of the speakers are definitely pitched toward elementary and possibly junior high school students. I would rate this DVD as highly recommended for that audience level and recommended for high school through adult viewers. Reviewed by Buzz Haughton, Shields Library – University of California – Davis –Educational Media Reviews Online, Sept. 2006

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