The Boy who Taught the Beekeeper to Read
The Boy who Taught the Beekeeper to Read
Last Updated (Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00) Written by Administrator Saturday, 08 May 2010 10:16
by Susan Hill (ISBN 0 09 945895 0)
I purchased this slim volume not simply for its title, but also because on this particular paperback edition the cover showed a bell-jar full of honeycomb, and, at the top, two perfect... wasps! If the blurb at the back was to be believed, the contents would belie this illustration blunder. I was surely going to read something about a beekeeper? However, how many times have we been warned about judging a book by its cover? The first chapter mentions a swarm (in August).
That's it. Nothing else about beekeeping.
I'm not saying it's a bad book or anything, simply that it wasn't what I expected.
It's not just covers we must mistrust, titles can also be misleading...