Half BEE. Half BOY. Melvin Meadly is . . . BEE BOY! Bees are in big trouble! All over the planet, plagues of bloodsucking vampire mites are infesting hives and wiping out entire colonies. Mel must battle to protect his beloved bees from attack, but he has more than just mites to worry about when beekeepers start to mysteriously disappear . . . The third adventure in this action-packed series. Filled with fantastic bee facts, and illustrated in stunning black and yellow!
Tony De Saulles trained as a graphic designer and worked in advertising, graphic design, and book design before turning to illustration and writing. Tony has been illustrating Scholastic's best-selling Horrible Science series since it first started back in 1996, the series has since sold more than ten million copies in over thirty countries. Bee Boy is his first project with Oxford University Press.
Title: Bee Boy: Curse of the Vampire Mites
Author: De Saulles, Tony
ISBN: 9780192763914
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2019-02-07
Number of Pages: 192
Weight: 0.2301 kg
Praise for Bee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens: Conservation, friendship and the joys of mastering unusual skills are interwoven with verbal and visual humour. * The Guardian *
An unlikely story but so well written that you will immediately engage with it. Superbly illustrated (in black and yellow, of course!), this is the highly entertaining story of an unlikely superhero * Parents in Touch *
An educational and entertaining book that keeps you hooked but never stops feeding you the facts * The Book Bag *
A fast moving text and real bee facts woven into the story * The Bookseller (picked as one of the books to watch) *
A bee-riliant read from bee-ginning to end * Nick Sharratt *
Tony's lively drawings keep this story buzzing! It's the bee's knees! * Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre *