As Richardson entertainingly reveals, bats can see amazingly well in the dark, under no circumstances will they fly into a person's hair, and only three tropical species drink blood. In this informative book, he intersperses many colorful firsthand accounts of studying bats in the field and explains how to build bat-friendly environments.

A look inside a bat's dark world, how bats hunt, sleep, and raise their young, and more.

Simple text and illustrations describe the habits and characteristics of bats.

After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.

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.