The Humpherys Family

The Beeman of Orn

Record Added: 8/23/2009
Illustrator Maurice Sendak
Topic Fantasy
Publisher Harper Collins Publishers
ISBN 0060297298   Year 1992
Age 4-8   Pages 56
Description printed dustjacket
 
In the ancient country of Orn there lived an old man who was called the Bee-man, because his whole time was spent in the company of bees. One day a Junior Sorcerer stopped at the hut of the Bee-man. The Junior Sorcerer told the Bee-man that he has been transformed. "If you will find out what you have been transformed from, I will see that you are made all right again," said the Sorcerer. Could it have been a giant, or a powerful prince, or some gorgeous being whom the magicians or the fairies wish to punish?

Also wrote Ting-a-Ling, a collection of fairy tales. The Bee-man sets out to discover his original form.

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