Busy Bee and the Silent Spring – Signed and dedicated editions direct from the author

Springtime should be noisier than this. What’s going on? Ideal for birthdays, Christmas and other occasions

For £12.99 including UK postage and packing I will sign and dedicate a book, reading age 7-12, for you. It includes a free 7″ x 5″ blank card (while stocks last) of the cover illustration of one of my other books and there are four to choose from. You can let me know what you want to write or I can write something on your behalf for whoever you are buying it for. Please contact me for further details including postage costs to other parts of the world. [email protected], 07938 293538. I am also advertising Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow, the first book of the series, for the same price and a two book bundle for £19.99. You can also order the book through our Etsy shop, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com.

The story

In Silent Spring, the second Busy Bee story and named after Rachel Carson’s famous book, the creatures of Old Oak Meadow start to fall ill. Bea and her friends must try to find out why. There seems to be some bad things going on in one of the farms next to the meadow. What are they and how do they stop what is making everyone sick?

This is one of Alice Wright’s wonderful illustrations that can be seen throughout the book.

The books can be purchased directly from Amazon without my signing and dedication of course. This is the .co.uk link to this book, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/, and this is the .com link, https://www.amazon.com/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/.

There are organic cotton T-shirts available of the cover artwork with or without the story title from our Teemill site for children, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/collection/kids/.

Our links

See more of Alice Wrights’ wonderful art, https://www.hireanillustrator.com/i/portfolio/alice-wright/ or Instagram @alicewrightillustration or Facebook @alicewrightillustrates.

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

Our Etsy shop, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/

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I had some mouse pee-soaked cardboard that I added to the nesting material. The original hose I wanted to use seemed too small, but it was to spec, so maybe I'll use that one instead. Building the "nest" out of chicken wire was interesting. My hand is a bit sore from all the wire cutting.

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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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The hairs on bumblebee tongues are merely hundreds of micrometers long.
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That's not official nomenclature, but it's more fun to me. 🐝

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