Pauline tells me I have a sixth sense, like a gift you get when one of your senses is missing. “Like when you can’t see, your hearing is really good, Bee or when your hearing is gone, your heart is big.”
We are lying on our mattresses in the back of our hauling truck. She is writing in her notebook. The shine from the moon is peeking in the truck.
“Or when you can see somebody other folks can’t?” I whisper.
Bee
Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers & Faber Children’s Books, London as
The Daring Escape of Beatrice and Peabody
Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year
Maine Cream of the Crop List
Indian Paintbrush Wyoming Book Award – Second runner up
William Allen White Kansas Children’s Book Award Master List
Reviews
“We all know there is magic in the world – and it is not the spells-and-wands kind of magic you find in most fantasy books. Real magic is created by love and conjured up by need. In Kimberly Newton Fusco’s enthralling Beholding Bee, there is an abundance of real magic. And it’s a good thing, because Bee needs all the help the world can give her.”
BookPage, Children’s Top Pick
“The reader is completely won over.”
The School Librarian (UK)
“A lovely story with a touch of magic.”
Sunday (London) Express
“Beholding Bee gives “readers a modern twist on fairy godmothers: strong supportive women who don’t need to provide a Prince Charming to make dreams come true.”
The Horn Book