This is a chapter book all about bats. In the first chapter of this book, Merlin discusses how he came to love bats. His father worked with all kinds of different animals so he grew up around them. All through elementary, Merlin loved saving and raising all types of animals he found. In high school he moved to Tennessee where they lived 2 miles from a bat cave. By the time Merlin graduated from high school he had completed three studies of bats that were published in scientific journals. Soon after Merlin Tuttle earned his doctoral degree with honors from the University of Kansas. The 2nd chapter is mostly about the characteristics of all different kinds of bats. There is information on what they eat and how they hunt. In chapter 3 Merlin discusses that he is getting a positive response to his pictures and began to take more. The photos helped the public to understand that bats are becoming extinct. The last chapter is about conserving the bat caves and getting people to learn about bats.
I would use this book in my classroom for the children to read during their free time. Before reading this book, I didn't really care about bats and I always thought that they carried diseases. Merlin does a good job discussing the issues why people think bats have no use in our world. The pictures were very interesting and fun to look at because Merlin took most of them himself.
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