A Bee's Kiss by Graeme Glass

What starts out as everyday picnic lunch which young William is sharing with his grandfather, transcends into a magical otherworldly adventure into a daydream world. Enter into this journey a bedraggled toy wooden bee in need of repair and a friend,quite by accident William finds that he can change this bee from wooden to real,as a consequence he now has a friend he can share his adventure with,they travel on to meet a high flying Spanish coupler shortly afterwards they are joined by a cheeky fantail bird and William gets to meet his grandmother who had died before he was born,in to this mix add a purple cat who loves poetry, luminescent dragon flies,neon night bees,and a Scotsman struggling to get a tune from his bagpipes. In a quiet moment while watching honeybees at work, young William finds himself face to face with a bee. Its hypnotic gaze transports him to a daydream world where time is compressed. This dream world reflects some of William