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  Based in part on The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! TV series (Episode 1) © CITH Productions, Inc. (a subsidiary of Portfolio Entertainment, Inc.), and Red Hat Animation, Ltd. (a subsidiary of Collingwood O’Hare Productions, Ltd.), 2010–2011.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Rabe, Tish.

  Show me the honey / by Tish Rabe; based on a television script by Ken Cuperus ; illustrated by Christopher Moroney.

  p. cm. — (Step into reading. Step 3)

  “Based in part on The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!”

  ISBN 978-0-375-86716-3 (trade)

  ISBN 978-0-375-96716-0 (lib. bdg.)

  ISBN 978-0-449-81270-9 (ebook)

  I. Cuperus, Ken. II. Moroney, Christopher. III. Cat in the hat knows a lot about that! (Television program). IV. Title.

  PZ8.3.R1145 Sh 2010 [E]—dc22 2009042730

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  v3.1

  Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright

  First Page

  “This morning,” said Nick,

  “I’d like honey on toast.

  That is the breakfast that

  I like the most!”

  “Me too,” said Sally,

  “but I’m sorry to say,

  it looks like we’re all

  out of honey today.”

  “Sally,” Nick said,

  “your joke isn’t funny.

  I can’t eat my breakfast

  if we’re out of honey!”

  “Did someone say ‘honey’?”

  cried the Cat. “What a treat!

  It’s gloppy and sloppy

  and sticky and sweet.

  I love it on pancakes,

  all fluffy and hot.

  Please pour me a bit

  of the honey you’ve got!”

  “It’s all gone,” said Nick.

  “Is there some in your hat?”

  “Oh dear …,” said the Cat.

  “No, I do not have that.

  But I have something else—

  a Special Invitation

  to Queen Priscilla Buzzoo’s

  Dance-All-Day Celebration!

  She is queen of the bees

  and her parties are great.

  But we’ve got to hurry

  or we will be late!”

  “There’s one problem,” said Sally.

  “Look here and you’ll see—

  to go to the party

  you must be a bee.”

  “Don’t worry,” the Cat said.

  “I know what to do.

  This is a job for

  Thing One and Thing Two!”

  So the two Things ran in and

  the Cat asked them, “Please,

  do something to make us

  fit in with the bees.”

  In a flash those two Things,

  with their usual knack,

  striped the kids and the Cat

  with yellow and black.

  “I can’t believe it,” said Nick.

  “I look just like a bee.

  This is something that I

  never thought I would see!”

  “We’re off!” said the Cat.

  “We will meet Queen Buzzoo.

  We’ll meet her and greet her

  and dance with her too!

  Push the Shrinkamadoodle

  if you would, please.

  It will shrink us down to

  the size of the bees.”

  “We’ll fly past the ladybugs

  and wave to the birds,

  who will sing us some songs

  that don’t have any words.

  We will soar and, what’s more,

  we will dip and we’ll dive

  through a hole in a tree

  and down into the hive.”

  They got to the party

  a few minutes late

  and were stopped by two bees

  who were guarding the gate.

  “Excuse me,” one said.

  “Where is your invitation

  to Queen Priscilla Buzzoo’s

  Dance-All-Day Celebration?”

  “Here it is!” Sally said.

  The bees said, “Go in!

  The special bee dance

  is about to begin!”

  “Nick and Sally,” the Cat said,

  “let me introduce you

  to the queen of the bees,

  Queen Priscilla Buzzoo.”

  “Hello,” said the queen.

  “Welcome to my hive.

  My party just started

  at a quarter past five.”

  “Your Beeness,” Nick said,

  “I’d like to thank you.

  This is the first party

  of bees I’ve been to!”

  Then they heard buzzing,

  and in front of the throne

  one worker bee started

  to dance all alone!

  She zigged and she zagged,

  then she wiggled

  and waggled.

  She slipped and she slid

  and she jiggled and jaggled.

  She swirled and she twirled

  with a buzz and a spin,

  and then …

  … more and more bees

  began to join in!

  Soon all the bees were

  dancing and twirling.

  Wings and antennae

  were swinging and swirling.

  Then Sally and Nick

  began to dance too.

  “Bee-utiful!” cried

  Queen Priscilla Buzzoo.

  “Watch the bees!” said the Cat.

  “And you’ll get a surprise—

  they aren’t just dancing

  to get exercise!”

  “The first bee that danced,”

  Sally said, “let me guess.

  She was showing them something.”

  The Cat cried out, “Yes!”

  “Her dance showed something

  bees need to survive—

  where to find nectar to

  bring to the hive.

  They get nectar from flowers.

  It’s sticky and sweet.

  They use it to make the

  sweet honey they eat.”

  “Her special bee dance

  lets the other bees know

  where to find flowers

  and which way to go.”

  “Can we help them?” asked Sally.

  The Cat said, “Indeed!

  We can follow and help them

  find nectar they need.”

  “To the Thinga-ma-jigger!

  Get ready to fly.

  Hold on to your hats

  and we’ll take to the sky!”

  “Le
t’s go!” said Nick.

  “If we hurry, we’ll see

  how bees make honey.

  How hard could it be?”

  So they flew with the bees

  and slurped nectar from flowers,

  then returned to the hive

  in a couple of hours.

  At the hive they spit nectar

  into combs, where it dried.

  Soon all of those combs

  had sweet honey inside.

  “In these combs,” the queen said,

  “we store honey away.”

  “This is fun!” Sally cried.

  “I could do this all day.”

  “Next, we must cover

  the combs,” said the queen.

  “This protects the honey

  and helps keep it clean.”

  “I like honey,” said Nick.

  “I like honey a lot.

  But making it is much

  more work than I thought!”

  “It’s late,” said the Cat,

  “and it’s time we must go,

  but we’ll come back to visit

  you all soon, I know.”

  “So long!” buzzed the bees.

  “And be sure to come back

  anytime you want honey

  to eat for a snack.”

  Back home they all opened

  their gifts from the queen—

  more jars of honey than

  they’d ever seen!

  “The note says,” said Sally,

  “ ‘We want to give you

  the world’s sweetest honey,

  from the Hive of Buzzoo.’ ”

  “I liked meeting the queen

  and flying through trees.

  But what I liked most,”

  Nick said …

  “… was dancing with bees!”

 

 

  Tish Rabe, Show me the Honey

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