This week Bashful Book Bee has a sweet little book that pulls characterization, social studies, science, and heart stories all into one.  The book is “Hurry and the Monarch” by Antoine O’ Flatharta.  Hurry and the Monarch has been around awhile but I know has often been overlooked.  Hurry, an old turtle, meets a migrating Monarch. Hurry learns from the Monarch about the migration of Monarch Butterflies from Canada to Mexico.  Hurry, who has always lived in Texas, cannot imagine any life but his little garden in Wichita Falls.  Teachers can use this book to show the various distances between Texas towns, as well as the geography from Canada to Mexico.  The story goes on to share with readers the stages of metamorphosis in the life of a butterfly.  The watercolor artwork gives visual beauty to the Monarchs as well as the age of the old turtle. 

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Bashful Book Bee "BEELIEVE'S" in sharing the love of books and reading with everyone. But her primary goal is to introduce books to children, teachers, educators, parents and grandparents.

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August of 2013 I started a new project to share books. Every week the Bashful Book Bee brought book suggestions for children, educators, parents and of course grandparents!  I made an attempt to collaborate an effort between myself the Queen Bee and her busy bumble bees, my darling grands~ However, between all of our schedules, sometimes I couldn’t consult my favorite audience… I stopped the blog a while back, not sure it was something that was providing a benefit to those I hoped to benefit…parents and teachers.  After a few months break I felt if only to benefit myself through the research efforts of finding the best book to recommend weekly, that I needed to start again.  This year I am going to try to recommend a book, a new “app”, and finish with a fun teaching quote.  I will use the blog, Facebook, and Twitter to spread these ideas. I hope you will like and share these modes of communication so I can share with several.  You can always email me at bashfulbookbee@gmail.com with your comments, suggestions and ideas of needs in great book topics….My constant objective is to share my joy of reading and the fun that can be found when you put books into the hands of the children~ 

            At the beginning of each New Year many people use the time as an opportunity of reflection and evaluation.  When evaluating myself, my heart often thinks of children’s self-esteem which is a big challenge for today’s children… So many children have esteem’s bigger than imaginableJ but I believe for the most part that many times our society wants children to fit a specific mold.  As my 3 oldest grand children range from pre-teen’s to high school,   I see worries in them for the approval of others.  Oh if only we could help our children to be happy with themselves. 

• ·         This leads me to my “BEELOVED” book of the week which is “I like myself” by Karen Beaumont.  This darling book’s young girl is perfectly content in her self-acceptance.  If only we all could be as happy with ourselves~ Teachers will love this book and LOVE that a quick Google search will provide lot’s of teacher activities through various web sites and even ideas from Pinterest!

• ·         My “BEELOVED” app of the week is IMovie…. I found it following the recommendation from my nephew, and found it to be a great easy movie program.  Adding Video, pictures and sound is a snap. And it’s free~
• ·         My “BEELOVED” quote of the week is…