Buzzing with Love by Rachael Hartzell

Kiki the Fly is excited for her first day as a Bud in her Garden Scout troop but when the bug she mistakenly thinks is a strawberry shows up in her group, she has a lot to learn about loving others even if you think they don’t deserve it.

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LJR’s Thoughts

Hartzell’s debut picture book for her planned nine-book series brings to life lovable characters in the Garden Scouts. Your kiddos will learn a valuable lesson about loving others with a cute story you’ll enjoy reading to them.

Overall Rating: 4.8 out of 5

Christian Morals/Values: 5 out of 5

Story: 4.5 out of 5

Read-Aloud Quality: 5 out of 5

Recommended Book:Jules is Patient by Toni Furrow

Considerations for Buzzing with Love

In our usual LJR fashion, we try to find anything that Christian families may want to know about ahead of time to address, skip, or dig deeper into. Take a look at what we found below. Our take on Discipleship Opportunities is at the bottom of the review.

• Positive Behavior: God-honoring principles are uplifted. Characters learn their lessons.
• Negative Behavior: A bug is rude to others.
• Language: none
• Violence/Intense Scenes: A bug is in danger of being eaten by a bird (mild). Not sure where to put this one but a worm mentions her ‘poop’ and how it is a ‘gift’ for plants. Told in a factual way but caught me off guard because the worm is anthropomorphic.
• Religion/Spirituality: none
• Racism/Discrimination: none
• Romance/Sexuality/Nudity: none.

Discipleship Opportunities

• In this first book in the series, the focus is love. It is no wonder 1 Corinthians 13 is recited at weddings, it describes what love is.
• Galatians 5:22-23 is a must for this series of course.
• More than any other description of love, discussing (and memorizing) John 3:16.

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