Shadows of the Night: The Hidden World of the Little Brown Bat

By: Barbara Bash

Genre: Informational Nonfiction

Age Range: 1st-6th; The text is easy to read but the sentences are more for fluent readers and there is little repetition. It can be used as an excellent story time book as it is organized to read like a story.

Content: This short book is about the Little Brown Bat living in North America. It provides information on feeding, breeding, and living. At the back of the book it has pictures and descriptions of other bats around the world. As a whole the book spas positively of bats and how they should be respected.

Organization: The book itself is organized starting with the bat migrating to breed, baby bats growing and learning to survive, and then hibernating in winter.

Illustrations: Mixed Media, accurate and full page drawings/paintings of bats.