The Children's Life of the Bee

"The Children's Life of the Bee" by Maurice Maeterlinck is a concise and thoughtful book about the importance of bees. It's, at its core, a study of the social aspects of the hive. Though it can be taken literally to be exclusively applied to bees, readers can also use Maeterlinck's background in philosophy to infer that he could also be talking about society as a whole and how everyone plays their part to keep the hive going.