Beatrice "Bumble B." Flinn loves the farmers' market, where her parents sell honey, and this time she is going to help out at her friend Kalia's family flower stand, but Bumble B is rather clumsy and easily distracted, so things do not go as well as she hoped--but in the end she finds a way to put her skills as an artist to good use.

Marsha Qualey is the author of many books for readers young and old. When she's not writing she likes to read, take walks by the river, ski in the winter, garden in the summer, and play with her cats all year 'round. Like Bumble B., she has very good friends who make life fun. Marsha has four grown-up children and two grandchildren. She lives with her husband in Wisconsin.