From the award-winning author of No Shelter Here: Making the World a
Kinder Place for Dogs and Cat Champions: Caring for our Feline
Friends comes an inspiring book about bats, their importance to a wide
range of ecosystems, and the young "bat citizens" who are engaged in
conservation efforts around the world.
In Bat Citizens: Defending the Ninjas of the Night, celebrated animal
activist and biologist Rob Laidlaw sheds light on these famously shadowy
mammals, from their habits and habitats to their importance for
maintaining biodiversity. Bat biology is explored alongside the history
of human-bat relations, with facts to fascinate even the most nervous
reader. Spotlight features on "Bat Citizens" make this an empowering
book for children seeking their own expressions of global citizenship.
Bat Citizens was a 2019 Green Earth Book Award Children's Nonfiction
Honor Book and was nominated for both the OLA Forest of Reading Silver
Birch Nonfiction Award and the Red Cedar Book Award. With informational
sidebars, color photographs, a glossary and index, and a center-gatefold
bat illustration, Bat Citizens is a book that will both instruct and
inspire.