Book Review

Young Tuttle at ten learned "with a passion" all he could about the mammals of California,... The mammal buff promptly failed fifth grade! But his wise teachers let him go on anyway. In high school he proved by banding that the grey cave bats near his home were migratory. ...he finally decided that his career must be to change people's unthinking antagonism to bats, a growing threat to our fascinating and beneficial little cousins,...

Here in Dr. Tuttle's wonderful photos we see bats worldwide, one at a time close-up or flying in massive swarms, fishing and frogging and catching scorpions, even pollinating the blossoms of the giant saguaro cactus. ...The book's author, Laurence Pringle, is an old hand at first-rate books like this one for young readers.

~ Philip amd Phylis Morrison, Scientific American exerpt