What If There Were No Bees?: A Book About the Grassland Ecosystem

By Suzanne Slade and Carol Schwartz

Grassland ecosystems can be found on nearly every continent. Countless animals and plants live in them. So what difference could the loss of one animal species make? Follow the chain reaction, and discover how important honey bees are.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: Aug 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781666306064

Suzanne Slade

Suzanne Buckingham Slade is the award-winning author of 100 books for children. A Mechanical Engineer by degree, Ms. Slade began her writing career twenty years ago. She lives near Chicago with her husband and two children.

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Reviews for What If There Were No Bees?

[jdaniel14-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This informational book explains the importance of bees to the grassland ecosystem in a fun and intriguing way. If I were to use this book in my classroom, I would have students learn key word vocabulary, such as grassland ecosystem, food chains, pollination, and keystone species. This book would be great to pair with the Cause and Effect crosscutting concept. This book would also be great to pair with NGSS Practice #8 so students could use evidence they researched on to support the need for bees in our grassland ecosystem.

[kfrost32 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book does a great job of explaining how bees are so important in our ecosystem. They go through how bees are part of the food chain and all the beneficial things that they do to help us humans be able to live. On each page, they also have a critical fun fact with some data or cool fact that could be really interesting and useful to show just how much bees do for us. They also go over the scenario of what would happen if bees became extinct, which is important for children to know so they can help prevent them from disappearing.

[ebarclift13 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a great informational text that talks about what role bees carry within the food chain as well as their necessity to humans. Although this book is flooded with a multitude of facts about bees, it is written in a very basic format. It includes great visuals that would be key for ESOL learners as well as visual learners. It would be important to review specific academic language seen throughout this book that learners may not know prior to reading. This book would also be great for a unit on bees or the food chain because it is relatable to students in the PNW who encounter bees often and wonder their role in our world.

[jenniferm14 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Brightly illustrated, this informational book is helpful for teaching children about ecosystems and the importance of bees in them. Not only is each page interesting and educational, but the back of the book also provides a glossary of vocabulary words and tips to keep grasslands healthy.