"Bertha, a very young bat, frightens her family once too often and is sent outside to play...This charming story is perfect for spooky lights-out reading and contains special glow-in-the-dark pictures for added surprises!"--Jacket.

Traces the life cycle of a bat as he rides clinging to his mother, learns to fly, avoids his natural enemies, hibernates for the winter, mates, and eventually dies of old age.

Almost eleven-year-old Harriet feels abandoned when her mother takes a new job, making her change schools and go to live with an uncle in a small California town, but as she becomes involved with her uncle's work with bats, she learns a lot about love.

A young boy finds life in the White House, where his father is always busy, very lonely, and so finds a family of bats and other friends to share adventures with.