Bats! (Time for Kids Series) »

The editors of TIME For Kids^® are committed to informing millions of kids about the world and their place in it. As part of a national news organization, they bring expert and age-appropriate reporting and photography from around the globe to books, classroom magazines, and a website.

The editors of TIME For Kids^® are frequent visitors to classrooms all over the country. And the TFK Kid Reporters have appeared on The Today Show, CBS Morning Show, CNN, and Fox News.

TFK editors also publish the TIME For Kids^® Science Scoops series, giving kids the inside scoop on the world’s most fascinating topics.

Meet a real batwoman, Discover why bats are mammals, Find out what bats like to eat & Learn more than forty fun facts about these winged animals

Level 3 – includes varied sentence structure and paragraphs, challenging vocabulary presented in a clear context, and detailed diagrams, captions, fact boxes, interviews with experts.

Special features include How Big?, Take a Close Look, Did You Know?, Words to Know, Fun Facts and 27 full color photographs, as well as a full page, labeled diagram showing body parts.

Ages 6+

Marilyn Courtot - Children's Literature

This new series of early readers, "Time for Kids Science Scoops," is taken from material prepared by the editors along with Nicole Ioria. Like any other early reader series, the books are leveled—Level 1 is targeted for beginning readers, Level 2 for developing readers and Level 3 is designed for confident readers. The full-page photographs have text boxes superimposed, but the judicious layout of the text boxes is such that no important information is lost from the images. The books in the series are nonfiction and while the text is at times choppy and often just a litany of facts, they are interesting facts. Bats are mammals and the only ones that fly. There are more than a thousand kinds of bats and bats use echolocation to find food. Some of the pictures are quite graphic which will really grab the attention of readers, especially those who enjoy gross "stuff." The Level 1 books contain a words to know picture glossary, while Level two also adds a section of interesting factoids entitled "Did You Know?" Level 3 adds even another small section of "Fun Facts." Bats! is a Level 3 book, guided reading level N-O, Spache reading level 3.00. Lesson plans can be found at www.harperteachers.com. 2005, HarperCollins, Ages 5 to 7.