Pip's town used to hum. Then the flowers faded, the buzzing stopped, and the mornings went quiet. One fuzzy spring day, Pip finds a tired bumblebee on the windowsill — and with one drop of sugar water, a friendship (and a garden revolution) begins.
Across 32 pages, Pip learns the waggle dance, meets a monarch with 3,000 frequent-flier miles, a hummingbird who never forgets a flower, and a moth who reads the moon like a map. By the last page, the whole town is planting — and buzzing — together.
Every spread is hand-illustrated in warm watercolor. Here's a taste.
"On the very first warm morning of spring, Buzzy stretched all six legs and sniffed the air. Flowers! Somewhere! He just had to find them."
4 – 5"Buzzy wiggled left. Buzzy waggled right. 'It's a map!' gasped Pip. 'You're drawing me a map — with your whole body!'"
6 – 7Short, bouncy sentences and a gentle refrain little ones will chant along with by the third reading.
Every pollinator fact was checked against entomology sources — the waggle dance really works like that.
The back matter includes a kid-sized guide to planting pollinator-friendly flowers, anywhere.
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Written by June Calloway · Illustrated by Theo Marchetti