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Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
Loretta is a very inquisitive little girl. In the middle of winter, she bundles up against the cold to go outside to fetch some firewood from the woodpile. It’s one of her chores. She doesn’t mind. She loves to be active and moving about. She has some difficulty removing the logs from the pile as they’re frozen together. She chops away and finally manages to release several logs which she then carries inside. While stoking the fire, a tube falls out and the learning begins. Her mother explains that it’s a nest of Leaf Cutter Bees’ eggs waiting for spring to hatch. Loretta is quite excited and, even though she lost her hat to the cold wind, she ventures outside to replace the tube so that the bees will hatch in the spring. Loretta searches all winter for the missing hat, but it’s not until the bees' eggs hatch that she discovers it, in one of the branches in the woods near her home, full of bees.
Lois J. Wickstrom’s Bees in Loretta's Bonnet (Loretta's Insects) is a delightful story about a very inquisitive little girl, one who actually likes and is fascinated by insects. The story is educational, but also entertaining. Young readers follow Loretta’s learning curve as she discovers new things about Leaf Cutter Bees. She even learns how to construct her own nest for the bees to lay their eggs in the fall. And the instructions are very clear so that the young reader can do the same thing. This is a great way to learn about insects, how they work to keep our gardens and forests alive and healthy, and how we can help them do their work. Super illustrations.
