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  • Hardcover: $16.95
  • ISBN: 978-1-56145-624-6
  • Total Pages: 32
  • Size: 10 3/8 x 9 3/8
  • Language: English
  • Rights: World
  • Status: active

Place for Bats, A


This fact-filled, colorful look at the amazing world of bats includes a call to action to protect these creatures and their habitats.

In simple yet informative language, A Place for Bats introduces young readers to the ways human action or inaction can affect bat populations and opens kids' minds to a wide range of environmental issues. Describing various examples, the text provides an intriguing look at bats, at the ecosystems that support their survival, and at the efforts of some people to save them. At the end of the book, the author offers readers a list of things they can do to help protect these special creatures in their own communities.

Author & Illustrator


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Melissa Stewart earned degrees from Union College and New York University and worked as an editor. She is the author of more than sixty books and lives in Massachusetts.

You can visit Melissa Stewart’s website here.

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Higgins Bond received a BFA from the Memphis College of Art and has illustrated many books for children. She lives in Tennessee.

You can visit Higgins Bond’s website here.


Reviews


“...The beautiful acrylic illustrations by Higgins Bond not only show the lifelike features of the bats, but the scenic habitats as well. In fact, looking at the life-like faces makes the bats appear almost adorable, not scary at all, and the forests and caves are stunning...” ―Boys to Books blog

“...A Place for Bats by Melissa Stewart really opened my eyes and helped me understand a little more about bats (even though I still think they're creepy). I liked that it talked a little bit about each kind of bat that lives in the United States, their disappearing habitats and what we could do to help...I can't wait to share this book with my students...” ―Maestra Amanda's Bookshelf blog