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:...
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...
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
CD
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
Shade is a young Silverwing bat, the runt of his colony. But he's determined to prove himself on the long, dangerous winter migration to Hibernaculum, millions of wingbeats to the south. During a fierce storm, he loses the others and soon faces the most incredible journey of his young life....
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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