Storytime @ Home: Nighttime animals

With loving words, a mother bat lulls her baby to sleep.

Bat wakes up, flies into the night, uses the echoes of her voice to navigate, hunts for her supper, and returns to her roost to feed her baby.

On a night when the moon can grow no fatter, bats pack their moon-tan lotion and baskets of treats and fly off for some fun on the beach.

A group of bats fly into the library through an open window and have all kinds of after-hours fun. The little ones play at the water fountain and copy machine before they settle down for a magical story hour that includes the 'batification' of many children's classics.

When the weather warms up, bats take advantage of an empty theater to stage a concert.

Batty's efforts to impress visitors at the zoo fail, but he is determined to be popular like the other animals. First he goes to the penguin pool but the water is cold and he doesn't like fish. Then he tries the gorilla enclosure but he doesn't have any fleas for the gorillas to pick off him. He tries to laze in the sun with the lions but its far too bright for his sensitive eyes. When eventually he returns to his bat cave he finds that everyone else...

Did you just see a butterfly? Or was it a moth? These animals look very similar, but they are different. Read this book to become an expert at telling these look alikes apart"--P. [2] of cover.

"An introduction to diurnal (daytime) and nocturnal (nighttime) animals"--

Forgetting his mother's warnings, Epossumondas goes into the swamp alone then must pretend to be dead time and again as he hears frightening sounds and fears they are being made by the dreaded loup garou.