Celebrate Bat Week (Oct 24-31, 2025)

Bat Week is an annual international celebration dedicated to raising awareness about the critical roles bats play in maintaining healthy ecosystems around the world.

Updated October 16, 2025
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The bat
Gravel, Elise
Paper Book
Hilarious illustrated nonfiction about bats perfect for beginning readers. Conversational text and silly illustrations will have you up all night reading about the only flying mammal on Earth! Fast bat facts: Distinctive trait: The only flying mammal Diet:...
The weird and wonderful world of bats : demystifying these often-misunderstood creatures
Brokaw, Alyson
Paper Book
In this fascinating science book, a behavioral and bat ecologist reintroduces readers to bats, redeeming their historically bad reputation. These woefully misunderstood creatures dwell in darkness, inspire fear, and threaten danger. They've been viewed as the pawns...
Bat count : a citizen science story
Forrester, Anna
Paper Book
Jojo is prepping for an exciting night; it's time for the bat count! Bats have always been a welcome presence during the summers in the family barn. But over the years, the numbers have dwindled as many bats in the area caught white-nose syndrome. Jojo and her family count the bats and send the...
All about bats
Jenner, Caryn
Paper Book
Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about the lives of bats with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress. DK Super Readers Level 1: All About Bats will introduce kids to the lives of bats--from how they find...
Where's Bernard? : a bat spotting book
Spitzer, Katja
Paper Book
This stunningly illustrated look-and-find book, with a glow-in-the-dark cover, sends young readers on a fantastical hunt with a lovable bat named Bernard. Bernard loves the dark. Why not? He's a bat! During his journey through the night he comes across fascinating creatures in all sorts of...
Handmade bird, bee, and bat houses : 25 beautiful homes, feeders, and more to attract wildlife into your garden
McKee-Orsini, Michele
Paper Book
Build and craft 25 beautiful small homes and feeders to attract wildlife to your backyard. Build and craft 25 beautiful small homes and feeders to attract wildlife to your backyard. Handmade Bird, Bee, and Bat Houses features homes to build for everything from...
Bat citizens : defending the ninjas of the night
Laidlaw, Rob
Paper Book
An innovative full-colour work about bats' biology, habits, and history, and the bat conservation efforts of young people around the world, now also available in paperback! From the award-winning author of No Shelter Here: Making the World a Kinder Place for Dogs and Cat...
Stellaluna
Cannon, Janell
Paper Book
A deluxe edition of the bestselling picture book classic Stellaluna! "Delightful and informative but never didactic; a splendid debut." --Kirkus Reviews Knocked from her mother's safe embrace by an attacking owl, Stellaluna lands headfirst in a bird's nest. This adorable baby...
The bat book
Milner, Charlotte
Paper Book
Go on an adventure in the shadows with award-winning author and illustrator Charlotte Milner. Discover why these mammals are essential to the world we live in, learn just how much they matter, why they are under threat, and what we can do to help. Bright, bold, and beautiful...
Bats in the band
Lies, Brian
Paper Book
The look on our faces is easy to read: a little night music is just what we need! A late-spring night sky fills with bats flocking to a theater, already echoing and booming with delightful sounds of music. Bat music--plunky banjoes, bat-a-tat drums, improvised instruments,...
Silverwing
Oppel, Kenneth
Paper Book
Kenneth Oppel's harrowing adventure tales about Shade, a young bat on a quest to prove himself to the rest of his Silverwing colony, are now available with exquisite new covers -- guaranteed to entice the next generation of young fans!
Amara and the bats
Reynolds, Emma
Paper Book
Environmental activism gets a nocturnal twist in this utterly charming picture book about a young girl and her mission to save the bats! Amara loves bats! Her favorite thing to do is to collect bat facts and watch the amazing mammals fly at night by her house. But...

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