{"id":386,"date":"2015-09-04T12:42:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T16:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:33:58","slug":"the-man-with-a-pocketful-of-bees-latest-from-frances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"The Man with a Pocketful of Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BeeCover-Hardcover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-387\" src=\"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BeeCover-Hardcover-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"BeeCover Hardcover\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BeeCover-Hardcover-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BeeCover-Hardcover-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BeeCover-Hardcover.jpg 1861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Old Sam, reclusive Gentleman of the Road,\u00a0enjoys a magical summer wandering the hills with his new friends the bees who have set up home in his trouser pocket, but when winter comes there \u00a0is a problem; the bees need a warm winter home and want\u00a0to go down into the village. Old Sam doesn&#8217;t like to go where folks are, but he loves his bees, his stripy friends, so reluctantly he agrees, but no one will give him a home. Eventually\u00a0Lady Meg and her cuddlesome cats take him in.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0story, told in traditional fairy tale style,\u00a0deals with\u00a0\u00a0difference, diversity, belonging and community\u00a0 and will prompt many discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The story is told in rhythmic language with exuberant illustrations. It is a splendid read aloud book, suitable for ages 4-10 and grown ups too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Sam, reclusive Gentleman of the Road,\u00a0enjoys a magical summer wandering the hills with his new friends the bees who have set up home in his trouser pocket, but when winter comes there \u00a0is a problem; the bees need a warm winter home and want\u00a0to go down into the village. Old Sam doesn&#8217;t like to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/?p=386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Man with a Pocketful of Bees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}