The Adventures of Maya the Bee: A Young Bee's Summer Outside the Hive
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 48 full-page plates by Carl Spitzweg, Wilhelm Leibl and Hans Thoma. Maya is born into a hive in the middle of a revolution, and on her very first flight she decides never to go back to carrying honey and making wax: she wants to see the world in bloom. Alone among the grasses, the garden and the lake, she meets a beetle who lives in a rose, a fly called Puck who is always in a hurry, and a good many creatures who would gladly eat her, and has to learn to live on her wits. What she wants most of all is to meet a human being. Waldemar Bonsels published the story in Germany in 1912; it sold in millions and was translated everywhere, long before the cartoon. Forty-eight plates of painting, from Carl Spitzweg to Wilhelm Leibl, gather the small world of the meadow and the open air that Maya crosses on her summer out.
Complete and unabridged, with 48 full-page plates by Carl Spitzweg, Wilhelm Leibl and Hans Thoma. Maya is born into a hive in the middle of a revolution, and on her very first flight she decides never to go back to carrying honey and making wax: she wants to see the world in bloom. Alone among th...
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Waldemar Bonsels (1880–1952) was a German writer and publisher whose children's book The Adventures of Maya the Bee (1912) became one of the most widely translated German books of its century. He also wrote travel books about India, where he had worked as a young man.
Waldemar Bonsels (1880–1952) was a German writer and publisher whose children's book The Adventures of Maya the Bee (1912) became one of the most widely translated German books of its century. He also wrote travel books about India, where he had worked as a young man.
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