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This Week’s Word Is “Bats.”
I’ve written a few reviews for Batman-related books during my years on GeekDad, but never one about bats. The Bat Book by Charlotte Milner is published by DK and is the follow up to The Bee Book and The Sea Book. These books are slim volumes filled with illustrations that give a great overview of the subject in question. They’re aimed at children aged around 8 upwards. If you have somebody in your house who is batty about bats, then they’re going to love The Bat Book.
What Is The Bat Book?
It’s a slim 50-page book that looks at bats: their biology, ecology, and the things that threaten their existence today. It’s a great jumping-off point for anybody wanting to learn about these imagination inspiring creatures.
Being a children’s book, The Bat Book is illustration-heavy, broken up with small chunks of text. It opens with a description of where bats live and what they look like. There are over 1,300 species of bat with all manner of variation. Did you know there were Megabats and Microbats? This book looks at the differences and similarities between the two. We can also find out about the physiology of the bat and why its wings are more like a human arm than a bird’s wing.
