SuitabookQueen Bee and Virelldar
Deborah Pride
- Reading
- Read together and let the child set the pace around the separation. Pause to invite their thoughts about family and friendship, without assuming the story mirrors their own circumstances.
- Themes
- Birth and new family: After separation from her birth family, Queen Bee finds Virelldar and forms a family with him and new friends, while hoping to see her birth family again. The story presents Queen Bee’s new family as important to her growth without removing her wish to reconnect with her birth family.
- Worth knowing
- Queen Bee is separated from her birth family. This may be worth noting for a child with personal experience of adoption or family separation; the story also introduces a new family and future hope of reunion.