Happy Our Year: An animated series for preschool children about a young hedgehog. Happy is really excited to win the Best Tomatoes Ever prize. [S] S1 Ep6 The intertwining of Little Bee's perspective and Sarah's perspective is interesting for the first half of the book, but it gets old. I think I found it kind of indulgent in the way it props Little Bee's Afrikaan-learning-proper-Queen-English against Sarah's glamorous sensible westernised personality, as if it's a book geared especially for middle-class women pretending they know how a Nigerian woman might think, and feeling better about themselves by showing empathy for Little Bee. Buzzbee Digs for Treasure: When Buzzbee and Barnabee borrow Postman Spider's old metal detector, they realise that what they thought might have been junk could be treasure. [S] S1 Ep34 Smelly Cat: An animated series for preschool children about a young hedgehog. Happy and his friends kindly help a confused cat who has lost her way. [S] S1 Ep12

Perhaps I am being a little too harsh though. Its a tightly-wound story...it's small, and efficient, and there are some pretty turns of phrase. I wasn't overly bored... Chris Cleave is not without talent... and my version has a pretty sparkly orange cover.... So Embarrassing: Animated series for preschool children about a young hedgehog. Happy feels really embarrassed when his friends discover his beloved baby snuggly. [S] S1 Ep5 And seriously, the cops caught Little Bee because she was at the scene of Charlie’s near disappearance? Seriously? Herbert, Ian (17 September 2005). "Asylum seeker kills himself so child can stay in Britain". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 31 May 2008 . Retrieved 25 January 2010. No character was a surprise. Sarah is the young, strong, career-minded, wealthy, white, British woman who runs her own fashion magazine … struggling (ever-so-not-convincingly) with losing her former self as a "real" journalist . . . having a long-term affair with a man that began w/in 30 minutes of her meeting him . . . having a husband that kills himself after that "terrible choice" on that "fateful day" on the beach in Nigeria, where they were trying to "save their marriage" . . . having a son who ever-so-quirkily will only dress in Batman costume and insists on being called Batman (and who, at four or five, can’t seem to speak beyond the level of a 2-1/2 year old). I couldn’t stand her. Sarah comes to learn some very important life lessons from Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee and orphan. Little Bee escapes the horrors of Nigeria and a detention center and finds her way to the middle of an idyllic white setting, where Cleave puts her on a mission to absolve guilt and change lives.

littleBe: The Hive

Buzzbee to the Rescue: When Dr Beetle comes to Honeydew School to give a lesson in First Aid, Buzzbee and friends have to attend an emergency at Anthill Stores. [S] S1 Ep74 Jump Goes to School: Buzzbee takes Jump to school to show everyone how to look after a pet. But Jump is very excitable and is a lot more jumpy than expected! [S] S1 Ep20

Healthy Bee: Buzzbee is fed up with having bananas in his lunch box so tries to hide them in the classroom. Soon there's an awful smell coming from the radiator... [S] S1 Ep17 Grandma Bee Gets Some Help: Grandma Bee really needs a trolley to make shopping easier for her so Buzzbee helps her see that change can be a good thing. [S] S2 Ep39 I love your feminine voice–Carl Gustav Jung would have loved it too, showing the power of individuation!’ I put this book down after finishing it this morning with the distinct feeling that it will haunt me for a very, very long time. What is so simple and straight-forward for Charlie is complicated for his parents, each of them changed in different ways from their time in Nigeria. Charlie thinks like Little Bee. He sees baddies everywhere and hides in the garden pretending he’s in the jungle. Bee, however, compares her childhood games with those of English kids.

Also, what about when on the beach Andrew said, “THis is not my / our affair” – then later we have the time at the gas station when Sarah is putting gas into her car and Little Bee thinks she can almost hear ther family’s screams with each drop of oil (not my affair?). I just finished Little Bee and as much as we all know happy endings aren’t always the case in this world we live in….they still are sought out, in ways they might give us The other narrator is Sarah, a woman who's slowly learning and coming to terms with the fact that the world is a nightmarish place. She's the character who is changing and growing in this novel, coming face to face with evil and choosing whether to fight it or ignore it. a b Norfolk, Lawrence (9 August 2008). "Africa on the doorstep". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 25 January 2010. The Big Push and Pull: Mr Millipede forgets to charge the new eco-electric car up before he gives it a test run and it ends up stranded. [S] S2 Ep68

Brown, Jonathan (18 November 2008). "Sex, sore feet, and a 90-year-old up for the Costa". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022 . Retrieved 24 January 2010. Hodder Wins Two Awards from the Book Marketing Society". Hodder & Stoughton. 3 March 2010 . Retrieved 1 April 2010. I didn't really feel like I could identify with any of the characters. Little Bee was a bit of an anomaly, being where she's been and where she is now. I found it hard to really understand her, even though it's apparent that she's meant to bridge the gap between her world and ours and allow us to empathize for those enduring such cruelty. But I didn't GET her, even though I mostly liked her and had my fingers crossed that she'd be OK. Sarah wasn't much better for me, either. I could understand her better, but I didn't like her. I thought that she was incredibly selfish and uncaring in her "Suburban Early-30s Professional" life. The way she derailed Little Bee's story with her own petty concerns and tedious details (those about her career and Lawrence) annoyed me. I understand the point to the story, I do, I just didn't care because I didn't much like her. She did grow up and mature over the course of the book, but the damage was done.Show and Tell Bee: There is much excitement at Honeydew School when Miss Ladybird announces that everyone needs to bring in something interesting for Show and Tell Day. [S] S1 Ep51 Useful Bee: Rubee is going to help out Katypillar in the greenhouse and Buzzbee decides he wants to be useful too. [S] S1 Ep26 yes, I know the account of the Nigerian oil war as portrayed in this story is not perfectly accurate. I still love the story so much, it physically hurts my heart 😩😩💗

Not So Happy Help: Animated series for preschool children. Happy is determined to make a swing by himself, but the best solutions come when you listen to new ideas. [S] S1 Ep16 When I was 16 I read this book. I don't remember all the details but I remember the urge I felt to tell all my friends to read it immediately and how the book was so good it was painful, so I read it twice. 😭

littleBe: Happy the Hoglet

After spending two years detained in a British immigration detention centre, Little Bee is illegally released after a fellow refugee performs sexual favours for a detention officer. Happy Wiggle: Animated series for preschool children about a young hedgehog. Happy discovers that you don't have to be good at something to feel good doing it. [S] S1 Ep2 How can you resist an opening like that? First paragraph of the book, and we see how this girl’s imagination helps her escape her world. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book with so much light-hearted, warm humour and so much tragedy, often in the same sentence. However, online references to this project went dead within a couple of years, and as of 2017 no film had been made.