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The Adventures of Maya the Bee

by Waldemar Bonsels

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First published
1912
Pages
140
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Read by Betsie Bush · 4 h 29 min · 17 parts

  1. 01 - First Flight

    14:33

  2. 02 - The House of the Rose

    12:20

  3. 03 - The Lake

    21:18

  4. 04 - Effie and Bobbie

    20:49

  5. 05 - The Acrobat

    13:30

  6. 06 - Puck

    16:27

  7. 07 - In the Toils

    21:42

  8. 08 - The Bug and the Butterfly

    11:30

  9. 09 - The Lost Leg

    24:02

  10. 10 - The Wonders of the Night

    25:45

  11. 11 - With the Sprite

    12:32

  12. 12 - Alois, Ladybird and Poet

    10:55

  13. 13 - The Fortress

    13:05

  14. 14 - The Sentinel

    13:53

  15. 15 - The Warning

    11:43

  16. 16 - The Battle

    17:07

  17. 17 - The Queen's Friend

    8:39

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About this book

Maya hatches into a busy hive and almost at once breaks its first rule, leaving to see the world for herself. What follows is a summer of encounters with a vain fly, a rude grasshopper, a dung beetle and a spider who nearly finishes her, told with real entomological curiosity under the whimsy. The book turns serious when Maya falls into the hands of the hornets and overhears their plan to raid her old home. She can keep quiet and live, or warn the bees she walked out on and pay for it. First published in Germany in 1912, it became one of the most translated German children's books ever written, long before television found it.

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Waldemar Bonsels

Maya the Bee, published in 1912, sends a young bee out of the hive into a summer a good deal more brutal than the later cartoon suggests, and it sold in enormous quantities across Europe. Bonsels had helped found a publishing house and travelled in India, which produced Indienfahrt, a travel book that did well in Germany between the wars.

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Book facts

First published
1912
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
140
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Betsie Bush