The Mysterious World of Honeybees Author:Sharon Sigmond Shebar, Steve Orlando (Illustrator) When the author's son Tom was stung by a honeybee, it aroused his curiosity about bees and led to a new and exciting hobby for him and his sister Susan. Full of questions, Grandmother Sara took them to visit their Uncle Sam, a beekeeper. — During the summer that followed, Tom and Susan learned all about the mysterious world of honeybees... more ». Uncle Sam told them about the life cycle and social structure of honeybee colonies, what to do if a bee stings, that honeybees and honey are big business. He also helped them build their own beehive so that by the end of summer, Tom and Susan extracted their first crop of wild honey.« less