The Honey Forest

by Hesba Brinsmead

Illustrated by Louise Hogan

Hodder & Stoughton, 1985, illustrated title page, black and white line drawings throughout text, hardcvoer with illustrated boards, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dust-jacket shows a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, some fading, sticker residue (see photographs)

"A patch of rain-forest - The Honey Forest - hidden deep in the Blue Mountains of Australia is the setting for this delightful and lovingly told story for younger children.  Dad and Mickey come to make their camp in the forest under the blackwood trees, with the icy mountain stream close by.  Here they spend the whole summer, with their hives of bees.  Mickey's father comes here each year with the bees, so that they may gather nectar from the esweet-smelling boronia, wild honeysuckle, hakea, banksia, wattle, brittlejack - and the flowering gum-trees, snow dappled with blossom.  The honey they make is 'like the smell of every summer that had ever happened.'"