Nobody in Cottage Creek Garden has ever seen Clover stop. Flower to flower to flower she goes, her wings a golden blur, her legs dusted gold. So when little Theo asks what she is carrying, Mari knows there is only one way to find out. They follow the busiest bee in the garden, one tiny trip at a time.
What they discover is quietly wonderful: the pollen Clover carries is helping every flower she visits make its seeds and its fruit. The whole garden, built a little at a time. And when evening comes and the flowers fold their petals shut, Clover shows them one more thing: even the busiest worker is allowed to rest.
Clover and the Thousand Tiny Trips is Book 5 in the Cottage Creek Garden series, a collection of read-aloud picture books about Sunny, Moss, Pip, Clover, and their friends. Each story stands alone, so readers can start anywhere.
Written for children ages 3 to 8 and suited to bedtime, classrooms, and library story time, this book turns real pollination science into a warm story any child can follow. Gently bolded sight words support early readers, five coloring pages extend the story past the last page, and Grandma Bea's Garden Notebook adds a hands-on activity, How to Plant a Flower Bees Love, for kids and grown-ups to try together. A Note for Grown-Ups includes calm bee-watching guidance and questions to keep the conversation going.
A warm story about big things built a little at a time, from author Zinnia Creek and Cottage Creek Garden.
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