AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR:
Janell Cannon
PUBLISHER:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
PUBLICATION DATE: August 1, 2007
AWARDS: American Booksellers Book of the Year, 1994;
ABBY Award; California Young Reader Medal; Keystone to Reading Book Award;
Reading Rainbow Feature Book; Southern California Council on Literature for
Young People Award
GENRE: Fiction
READING LEVEL: 2nd grade
BRIEF OVERVIEW: A
baby bat is raised by birds in their nest until she is reunited with her mother
again.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY:
Students will create a t-chart and identify the differences and similarities
between birds and bats.
REVIEWER’S NAME &
AFFILIATION: Laura Cerone Valdosta State University ECSE
LABELS: bats,
fiction, family