Maisy Loves Bees
Maisy Loves Trees
Lucy Cousins
Walker Books

Young children’s favourite rodent Maisy Mouse has turned green – not literally of course: rather, she’s become a champion of helping to protect our precious planet.
In these Maisy’s Planet interactive board books, little humans are invited to join Maisy as she finds out about two of the most important organisms of the natural world. Maisy Loves Bees begins in her garden where she learns the basic characteristics of those stripy little insects and discovers why bees are so vital, what they need, what’s their role in nature. She also visits a beehive, finds a honey bees’ nest and finally invites her friends to join her in the garden where they all watch the bees busy at work.

In Maisy Loves Trees, she finds out what a tree is, how it grows, investigates different varieties of leaves, learns about seasonal changes through the year, discovers that not all kinds of trees undergo these changes and visits the park with Cyril the squirrel and Tallulah the chick to see examples of trees from all over the world.

With bold, bright illustrations, a final fold-out scene and simple explanatory texts, these are just right for encouraging tinies to become lovers of nature. Share and then go and do some investigating outdoors.