She now lives in Melbourne with her family and a cheeky dog, works with gifted children, and teaches writing in further education. In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit trees and pollinate the flowers by hand. This children's novel is set in future Australia in a time when there are no bees, and children are employed to scramble through the fruit trees with feather wands, much like the pear farmers of Hanyuan in China are forced to do today. Goodreads Author. How to Bee HOW TO BEE by Allen & Unwin hit the shelves in May 2017! In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit trees and pollinate the flowers by hand. How to Bee by Bren MacDibble. Peony, her sister and grandfather live and work on a fruit farm where children are bees… Her next The Dog Runner came out in 2019. 'How to Bee' is Bren's first children's novel to be available in the UK. Zum Hauptinhalt wechseln. Peony can’t wait to be promoted to the role of ‘bee’ – reserved for the quickest, nimblest kids who perform the crucial task of pollinating fruit trees by hand. How To Bee shows that even the smallest person can make a big difference in a challenging world. Visit Bren’s website here to find out more about this fascinating author. How To Bee was published by Old Barn Books on 3rd May 2018. All Peony really wants is to be a bee. Bren lives in Australia, with her family and crazy little dog. Official webpage of Bren MacDibble, Australian/NZ, Children's writer. In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit trees and pollinate the flowers by hand. Brave and fierce nine year-old Peony wants more than anything to become a 'bee' - scrambling around in the fruit trees, pollinating them by hand with delicate feathers. How to Bee (English Edition) eBook: Bren MacDibble: Amazon.de: Kindle-Shop. 27 Apr 2017. In How to Bee, Bren MacDibble goes with the premise that due to widespread use of pesticides, the bees have died out, and to continue growing produce and farming, pollination must be done by children (leaping from tree to tree with special pollinating wands). She now lives in Melbourne with her family and a cheeky dog, works with gifted children, and teaches writing in further education. Bren MacDibble was raised on farms all over New Zealand, so is an expert about being a kid on the land. New Zealand-born author Bren MacDibble's first novel for children to be released in the UK explores the all-too-likely near future scenario of a world without bees. Meet tough, sassy Peony, an almost-ten-year-old farm worker in the Goulburn Valley of the near future.