ユイと花粉はこびロボット・ドローン
対象年齢 6〜8歳
急な寒さで果樹園のミツバチたちが巣に閉じこめられてしまいました。ユイは、花が散ってしまう前にすべてのりんごの花に花粉をとどけようと、毛むくじゃらのおなかをした小さなドローンの群れを作ります。
Frost glittered on every apple blossom like sugar sprinkled on candy. Inside the wooden hive, the bees stayed curled and still, far too cold to fly anywhere at all. "No bees means no apples this year," sighed Gran Nell, her breath puffing white in the chill. ユイ stared hard at the silent hive, jaw set tight. "Then we'll need helpers who aren't afraid of cold," she said.
In the red toolshed workshop, ユイ spread out gears, coiled wire, and a soft spool of horsehair from Gran Nell's old brushes. "Bees carry pollen on their fuzzy legs," she whispered, turning a tiny motor over in her palm, thinking hard. A plan buzzed to life in her mind, humming louder with every gear she turned. "Fly true, fly true," she hummed to himself, already dreaming up wings.
Bristle by bristle, ユイ glued soft horsehair to a little drone's round belly, humming her new tune under her breath. "There now, fuzzy and ready," she murmured. The machine's glass-bead eyes blinked awake, and its wings buzzed a wobbly test flutter before ユイ caught it safely in her open palm, grinning.
