{"product_id":"bee-a-peek-through-picture-book","title":"Bee: A Peek-Through Picture Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a hole in the cover, and a bee inside it. Turn the page and the hole becomes part of a new flower, then a hive cell, then the sun over a meadow. The die cut is not decoration here, it is the mechanism: the same opening keeps reappearing as something different, and a child works out that the bee is travelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat that carries is real content. Across the book the bee moves from foxglove to rose, dusty with pollen, past a woodland stream, into the hive where the colony works together, and out again into a meadow of poppies. By the end a three year old has been taught pollination without a single sentence that sounds like a lesson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBritta Teckentrup builds every spread as a multimedia collage, layered paper and print in deep greens, golds and dusk blues. Her meadows look like something you would hang, and adults regularly stop on a page longer than the child does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of the Peek-Through series alongside Tree, Ocean, Moon, Home and Bugs. The rhyming text reads aloud in a few minutes and the pages hold up to being poked at, which is what a die cut book has to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48186741227750,"sku":"D350207","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/r19-hero-4x5.jpg?v=1786588596","url":"https:\/\/shop.stellarluxe.com\/products\/bee-a-peek-through-picture-book","provider":"Stellar Luxe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}