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While out searching for food, fruit bat Stellaluna and her mother are attacked by a vicious owl. Stellaluna is separated from Mother Bat and taken in by a family of birds where she must put aside her bat habits to fit in with her new family. But one fateful flight when she is separated from her adoptive siblings, Stellaluna is reunited with her bat family and learns that even though we’re different, we’re very much the same.
Lexile Measure: AD550L (What's this?)
Hardcover: 48 pages
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers; 1st edition (April 30, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0152802177
ISBN-13: 978-0152802172
Product Dimensions: 10 x 0.4 x 10 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (330 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #2,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Books > Children's Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life > Family Life > Adoption #4 in Books > Children's Books > Animals > Baby Animals #10 in Books > Children's Books > Animals > Mammals
Age Range: 4 - 7 years
Grade Level: Preschool - 3
If I HAD to answer the question: What is your favorite children's book?, I would have to pick "Stellaluna." There, this children's librarian committed, but I think my students would know that. It's one of their favorites, too!!What makes this book so special? E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G!! The story line, the embedded lessons, and the sweet, sweet illustrations. I don't know how well you can see the young bat's face on the cover. If you can, notice that darling tongue sticking out, like a puppy's. Notice her struggle, expressed with joy, to hold on to the limb. And we have not even opened the book yet!This is the story of a young bat who is separated from her mother after an owl attacks them in flight. She falls into a tree, then into a bird's nest filled with three hungry babies who are already fully feathered. The mother bird adopts her but insists she eat bugs like her babies. Stellaluna is a fruit bat, but adopts the ways of birds, except for hanging by her feet to sleep. Her new siblings try it one day. Mother returns and expresses her dismay. The babies are hilariously portrayed with their bird feathers hanging down from their heads.When they learn to fly, poor Stellaluna is so clumsy trying to land upright on a limb with feet equipped for hanging, not perching. At night her bat radar comes into play and she goes weird on them flying by radar. Eventually, her bat mother finds her and Stella's world is restored. She discovers she eats mangoes, not bugs. She is delighted!And the second best part is that she remains friends with her bird friends.Embedded lessons:1. Bats are what they are; birds are what they are.2. We can accept each other's differences and be enriched by the experience.3.
Stellaluna
