A Beekeeper's Year

Readers will follow beekeeper John Wetzler as he cares for his behives through a year. The book shows how he introduces a new queen into a hive, tends the hives during the honey-producing summer months, extracts and bottles honey in the fall, and keeps the hives warm in winter. Written by Sylvia Johnson, with photographs by Nick Von Ohlen, this will help readers understand how honey is made, and how bees are important to the environment. Although the book is a few years old, it may help readers understand the importance of bees to our environment, when we read and hear about all the bee colonies that are dying mysteriously. The book was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in 1995.