Buzz

Should bees fly?

Bumble Bee Tumbles the Fact

in Buzz by Eileen Spinelli

I didnt know about this myth that 'Buzz cant fly'. That aside, the illustrations and clear pictures of the sky, mountains, hills and brambles make it an amazing game to identify. The elements of the illustrations in each page are limited, so its easy to get your toddler to interact with it, by pointing to and asking them to tell what they see. Buzz has friends she care about and swoops to them high and low, as they are not all who can fly. In an emergency, she 'rises' up to the situation despite the professors's words.
For grownups, this will lead you to a concept called 'Dynamic Stall' that begins with “Aerodynamic bodies subjected to pitching motions or oscillations exhibit a stalling behavior different from that observed when the flow over a wing at a fixed angle of attack separates”.
Oh well, I think you will like the Buzz saving his friend at the end of the day better..

Just for curiosity sake, I asked my daughter if the snail could fly. She said No. When i asked why, she had it all pat down about it not having wings. I was surprised that she could infer it from our everyday conversations about birds and planes being able to fly by having wings. But in all honesty, when we reread the book, I noticed that the text too refers to the snail being unable to fly.
She retained the word flipped from this book.