Baby bat bedtime - paige towler

At the end of a warm, dark night in the rainforest, dawn starts to break.

Soon, animals will rise to greet the day.

But not everyone is waking up.

Some animals havent even been to bed yet! Small brown bats have been busy all night, swooping and looping through the starry skies.

Now it is time for them to settle in among the trees.

But one baby bat wants to stay up and play.

How will her mother convince her its time to close her eyes and go to sleep? Lyrical text and soft, soothing illustrations show little readers that from bath time to lullabies, getting ready for bed looks very similar for bat babies and human babies alike.

Fascinating scientific facts and photos from the Smithsonian Bat Lab showcase the amazing lives of bats and reveal how they are not so different from humans in their family behavior.