If Bees Disappeared

If Bees Disappeared
Author: Lily Williams
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250830400

What would happen if bees disappeared? Find out in this fourth book from Lily Williams in the award-winning If Animals Disappeared Series that imagines the consequences of a world without bees. The rolling hills and lush climate of Kent, England are home to many creatures. These creatures are fluffy, sneaky, spikey, and ... small, like the bee. Though bees are small, their importance is BIG. Today there are over 250,000 species of bees but all of them are in danger. Because of disease, pesticide exposure, lack of foraging habitats, and poor nutrition, entire honey bee hives are dying. What would happen if bees disappeared completely? Artist Lily Williams explores how such a loss would effect not just bees' environment, but the world as a whole in this poignant, beautiful book about the importance of our most important bees.

What If There Were No Bees?

What If There Were No Bees?
Author: Suzanne Slade
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2011
Genre: Agricultural ecology
ISBN: 1404860193

Talks about each habitat and shows what would happen if the food chain was broken.

A World Without Bees

A World Without Bees
Author: Alison Benjamin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Bee culture
ISBN: 9781605981253

An investigation into the mysterious case of the vanishing honeybee.

If Sharks Disappeared

If Sharks Disappeared
Author: Lily Williams
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2017-05-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250171385

A healthy ocean is home to many different kinds of animals. They can be big, like a whale, tiny, like a shrimp, and even scary, like a shark. Even though sharks can be scary, we need them to keep the oceans healthy. Unfortunately, due to overfishing, many shark species are in danger of extinction, and that can cause big problems in the oceans and even on land. What would happen if this continued and sharks disappeared completely? Artist Lily Williams explores how the disappearance would affect other animals across the whole planet in this clever book about the importance of keeping sharks, and our oceans, healthy.

If Polar Bears Disappeared

If Polar Bears Disappeared
Author: Lily Williams
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 125022019X

The freezing ecosystem in the far north of the globe is home to many different kinds of animals. They can be Strong, like a walrus Tough, like a lemming Resilient, like an arctic fox But no arctic animal is as iconic as the polar bear. Unfortunately, the endangered polar bear is threatened with extinction due to rapid climate change that is causing the ice where it hunts/lives to melt at an alarming rate. If Polar Bears Disappeared uses accessible, charming art to explore what would happen if the sea ice melts, causing the extinction of polar bears, and how it would affect environments around the globe.

If Elephants Disappeared

If Elephants Disappeared
Author: Lily Williams
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250755514

What would happen if elephants disappeared? Trace the repercussions of a world without elephants in writer and illustrator Lily Williams' third picture book about loss and conservation. The Congolese forest is home to many types of animals. Some are strong. Some are slippery. Some are loud. And some, like the elephant, are BIG. The elephant has become synonymous with the image of African wildlife. They can grow over 10 feet tall and eat up to 300 pounds a day. While these giants are beloved figures in movies and zoos, they also play a large role in keeping the forest ecosystem healthy. Unfortunately, poachers are hunting elephants rapidly to extinction for their ivory tusks, and that could be catastrophic to the world as we know it.

The History of Bees

The History of Bees
Author: Maja Lunde
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2017-08-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501161393

“Imagine The Leftovers, but with honey” (Elle), and in the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this “spectacular and deeply moving” (Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author) novel follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees—and to their children and one another—against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis. England, 1852. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive—one that will give both him and his children honor and fame. United States, 2007. George is a beekeeper fighting an uphill battle against modern farming, but hopes that his son can be their salvation. China, 2098. Tao hand paints pollen onto the fruit trees now that the bees have long since disappeared. When Tao’s young son is taken away by the authorities after a tragic accident, she sets out on a grueling journey to find out what happened to him. Haunting, illuminating, and deftly written, The History of Bees joins “the past, the present, and a terrifying future in a riveting story as complex as a honeycomb” (New York Times bestselling author Bryn Greenwood) that is just as much about the powerful bond between children and parents as it is about our very relationship to nature and humanity.

If Tigers Disappeared

If Tigers Disappeared
Author: Lily Williams
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250890233

What would happen if tigers disappeared? Find out in this fifth book in the award-winning If Animals Disappeared series that imagines the consequences of a world without tigers. Deep in the Biligirirangana Hills in India, a fierce creature roams. This landscape is home to animals that are slithery smart hidden and....LOUD like the roar of a tiger. There are nine subspecies of tigers, but three are now extinct. They play a very important role in keeping nature in balance. But, due to expanding human populations, poaching, and more, they’re in danger. What would happen if tigers disappeared completely? Join Lily Williams as she tracks the devastating reality of what our world might look like without tigers.

Fruitless Fall

Fruitless Fall
Author: Rowan Jacobsen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2010-07-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1608192539

Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality when, in 2007, beekeepers watched thirty billion bees mysteriously die. And they continue to disappear. The remaining pollinators, essential to the cultivation of a third of American crops, are now trucked across the country and flown around the world, pushing them ever closer to collapse. Fruitless Fall does more than just highlight this growing agricultural catastrophe. It emphasizes the miracle of flowering plants and their pollination partners, and urges readers not to take the abundance of our Earth for granted. A new afterword by the author tracks the most recent developments in this ongoing crisis.