Freya is currently enjoying me making different animal noises so this book gives me the opportunity for plenty of buzzing, as we count backwards & single bees buzz off. She is also now exploring more things with her hands and this is a great book for touching the plastic moulded bees or sticking fingers through the die cut holes. It’s also the time that once explored goes straight in her mouth, luckily I have some cloth books & mini board books for that.

I found this book a gentle introduction to the characters in Winnie the Pooh, which I hope we will see more of as she grows older. Bryn has recently started to enjoy listening to the audio book of Winne-the-Pooh stories in the car & getting to the point of retelling them. He is enjoying the simple fun adventures of Pooh & his friends & it’s a chance for me to discover them too as I seemed to have avoided most stories that involved talking animals when younger.

This book also has illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, the original Pooh drawings, which are really delightful & I especially like the small pencil drawings. They feel subtle & quirky in comparison to the Disney version.

One busy bee has so much to do That of he buzzes,...