The Children's Life of the Bee: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Children's Life of the Bee, credited to Maurice Maeterlinck, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Children's Life of the Bee, by Maurice Maeterlinck. Read by Phil Chenevert Buzz, buzz, buzz. A fascinating and beautifully written explanation of the life of the honey bee. Maeterlinck, who won the Noble Prize for Literature, wrote a more scholarly work called The Life of the Bee but then rewrote it in simpler terms so that children could appreciate what goes in a hive. The book describes in simple language the inner workings of a hive from its beginning with a swarm to the fully functional hive with thousands of workers, drones and a queen busily building, repairing and gathering. (Summary by phil chenevert)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Children's Life of the Bee
• Author credits: Maurice Maeterlinck
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 2:42:10

Catalogue topics

• children
• science
• bees
• honeybees

Track guide

1. 1 - ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE HIVE — 11:26
2. 2 - THE SWARM — 51:31
3. 3 - THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY — 43:42
4. 4 - THE YOUNG QUEENS — 20:23
5. 5 - THE MASSACRE OF THE MALES — 10:08
6. 6 - THE PROGRESS OF THE RACE — 25:01

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