Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats (Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science: Stage 2 (Pb)) - Softcover

Ann Earle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0780752503 ISBN 13: 9780780752504

Publisher: Perfection Learning, 1995

Synopsis

Bats fly into the spotlight in this exploration of such basics as where the live, how mothers raise their pups, and how they hunt for food. Included as well is a simple plan for a building a backyard bat house. 1995 Pick of the Lists (ABA)
Best Children's Science Books 1995 (Science Books and Films)

About this title

About the Author:

Ann Earle is on the faculty of St. Michael's College. She often watches bats fly over her backyard at night. This is her first book for children. Ms. Earle lives in Richmond, VT.

Henry Cole teaches elementary science at The Langley School. This is the first of many books to come from this talented new artist. Mr. Cole live in Reston, VA.

From Booklist:

Gr. 2^-3, younger for reading aloud. From the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out series, this book aims to decrease children's fear of bats by increasing their knowledge and appreciation of the little brown bat, the most common in the U.S. The cogent text talks about bats' wing structure, claws, echolocation, grooming, hibernation, nursing, loss of habitat, and endangerment. Introducing bats as insect eaters, Earle puts their prodigious appetites in terms that children will understand: "Each night a bat chomps half its own weight in bugs. If you weigh 60 pounds, that's like eating 125 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches every day." The book ends with fast facts on a few other bat species and simple plans for building bat houses. The artwork, combining acrylic paints and colored pencils, includes appealing full-page and double-page illustrations of bats as well as of children watching them. Carolyn Phelan

About this edition

• Publisher: Perfection Learning
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0780752503
• ISBN 13: 9780780752504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Henry Cole