How do bats use squeaks to hunt for insects in the dark? How do they sleep? What is a baby bat called? Why do some bats drink blood? Find all the answers in this book and much more, with gorgeous photographs, step-by-step illustrations, simple text and links to carefully selected websites.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Beginners, Usborne, Usborne Beginners .

This book has been graded for interest at 4-7 years.

There are 32 pages in this book.

This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).

This book was published in 2009 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Sue King has been illustrating children's books since 1987, creating fun and lively illustrations for a wide range of books. Her illustrated work includes Little Red Tractor, Where is Otis?, On the Farm, Fish and Chips and the Friendly Phonics series. Sue lives in Suffolk. Rickey E. Pittman, 1998 Grand Prize winner of the prestigious Ernest Hemingway Short Story Competition, is an active member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Camp Thomas McGuire, in West Monroe, Louisiana. He is also a Civil War re-enactor, a public speaker on issues and topics related to the War Between the States, and a musician who travels and performs original and Civil War period music. Pittman lives with his wife in Bastrop, Louisiana, where he teaches English at Bastrop High School and freshman composition at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He is a proud father and grandfather. Connie McLennan is a member of the San Francisco Society of Illustrators and the Picture Book Artists Association. She graduated from California State University, Sacramento with a B. A. in journalism and a minor in art. She lives with her husband in Rocklin, where she works as a freelance artist.