The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read is a short story collection by British writer Susan Hill published in 2003 by Chatto & Windus (hardback) and the following year in paperback by Vintage Books. It "received long and favourable reviews in The Guardian (Hermione Lee), The Spectator (Francis King), The Sunday Times (Penelope Lively) and The Times Literary Supplement (Mark Cries). Source: Wikipedia (en)