A bumblebee doesn’t bother about big noises.
Find the click of a small bee swallowing some honey
Once there was a sleepy bunny who began to yawn…
He yawned and he yawned until suddenly a bee flew into his mouth and he swallowed the bee!
“What shall I do?” he whispered to a squirrel who wasn’t sleepy.
“Wake him up,” said the squirrel. “Wake up the bumble bee.”
“How?” whispered the bunny. “All I can do is whisper, and I’m sleepy.”
Suddenly a wise old groundhog began popping up out of the ground.
“All the better,” said the groundhog. “You have to make the littlest noise that you can possibly make, because a bumblebee doesn’t bother about big noises. He is a very little bee, and he is only interested in little noises.”
So the little bunny made the sound of a ladybug breathing…
…but the bee didn’t wake up.
by Margaret Wise Brown
, (23 May 1910 – 13 November 1952)
from The Whispering Rabbit, 1948
Read-out-loud Magic
Who hasn’t read Margaret Wise Brown?
If you haven’t heard of Goodnight Moon
Some Margaret Wise Brown books are more famous now than 40 or 50 years ago. Some that I loved then are harder to find now. The Whispering Rabbit
Do you know how the whispering rabbit woke up the bee? He made a sound like “the very small click of a bee swallowing some honey from an apple blossom.”
That woke up the bee, who “thought he was missing something and flew away.”
Have you ever had moments when you’ve lost your voice, then found the “click of a small bee swallowing some honey,” and suddenly felt free?
July 25th, 2009 at 12:02 am
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I’m going to have to give this some thought, and maybe it even deserves a semantic diagram, but frankly I’m counting on you for expanding my literary horizons beyond Milton, and this one is a little discouraging…
Best wishes and chuckels,
Walter