Miss Moxie's story is being told to enlighten humans about the tremendous amount of good honeybees do for us. They provide not only the wonderful, tasty, healthy products from their hives, but they are also vital to the daily supply of fruits, vegetables and other foodstuffs for our tables. The story is an excellent way to help youth understand the workings of a bee hive. It provides this information in a fun, thought provoking way and includes numerous photos to help with learning. When reviewed by reading teachers,science teachers, professors and bee keepers they all say, this story needs to be published!

About The Author

Dale Benedict was born the eighth child in the Benedict family of eleven children. He grew up with an insatiable appetite for reading and learning. Even as a youth he had a “gift for story telling”. With this gift he entertained family members and friends long before TV’s, computer’s, Game Boy’s, etc. were developed. He has also written a family story titled "Kids, Boards, Peaches, Chocolate Ice Cream,Oil Barons and A Storyteller". It is about growing up as a member of a large, loving family during the thirties, fourties, fifties and sixties. In later life Benedict became a Consultant to Fortune 500 Companies on a global basis helping companies discover new products and as well to develop and communicate enhanced brand and market strategies. It was after retiring that Benedict decided to return to his “roots” and to start beekeeping in order to facilitate pollination of family owned  fruit trees. This hobby led to the need to sell some of the produced honey and honey products  from the bee hives at local farm market’s. Benedict with the help of his son and  grandchildren experienced the “wide wonder and fascination” that young children have for honeybees. Of course free samples of honey helped to promote this fascination and the children would return week after week to see “the honey man”.  It wasn’t long before they started to bring their little sketches showing themselves with the honey man and his honeybees. It was this wonderment by children that prompted Benedict now at 72 years of age to write Miss Moxie The Amazing Honeybee Story.

Benedict's first exposure to honeybees was when his parents decided to move the family to a general purpose farm in the country. I become more aware of the great beauty of nature and the “sweet treats” from honeybees!  Sugar was rationed or unavailable during Word War II and our family was mighty pleased when my older brothers discovered a
“ bee tree” on our farm. It was from this tree and the honeybees therein that we harvested our sweetener’s.

My mother then decided that we should have honeybees on the farm. The day that the hives and honeybees arrived on the farm via the post office was my first day to start experiencing the joys of beekeeping.