This is hardly a sexist story. Lally draws real life comparisons from the hard facinating real world of bees. Females run the hives,Queens rule, drones serve one purpose. The beauty in this book is the identification with misfits in a fixed society. Social structure, politics, nature,love,friendship,and poetry are delicately examined with a beautiful lesson on what we can and cannot control in an imperfect world.I loved it.Read it again.

This book.......

This book brought you to the depths of human feeling and emotion, ranging from the indignantly annoying drones and male bees, from the sweet pining of Alfred for the Queen, to Mo finding the meaning of life. The book was a child's tale to be sure, but at my age, far more than a child, i immidiately fell into the world of buzzing and honey-fanning, necter gathering and hive gaurding. I cried at the end, very much.

This beautiful story of a worker bee who dreams, follows our own lifes. So much of what we do is fated and we can not break out of our lives no matter what our dreams are. I loved this book: the beautiful paper used, the cover, the color of honey and stamped with the shape of the hive, the drawings of bees so like us. Lally's story is not sexist,but a tale of workers and those who benefit from the work without participating. If one sees male-bashing perhaps its because he sees himself a drone.

Read this book! Enjoy the beauty of the story and words. Lally has a great talent that all can enjoy. Her story will touch many different places in your heaart.