Nuova

Or, The New Bee

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Inside a crowded hive, Nuova bites through the wax cap of her cell and steps into a world of work, food stores and restless neighbors. Vernon L. Kellogg begins with the young bee's awakening, describing her changing body and the care she has received from nurse bees. The small spaces of the comb become the setting for a children's fantasy that mixes observations of bee life with human speech and feeling.

The hive also has its rivalries. When a new Princess emerges, the old Queen faces a challenge, and the worker bees must decide whom to follow. Nuova's affection for the drone Hero makes that division personally painful, as his attention turns toward the Princess. Songs by Charlotte Kellogg accompany the story. Its combination of household tasks, royal ceremony and private attachment gives readers a way to think about community and individual wishes through the imagined lives of insects.