Science Comics: Bats: Learning to Fly [Hardcover]

Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topicdinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you!

This volume: InBats, we follow a little brown bat whose wing is injured by humans on a nature hike. He is taken to a bat rehabilitation center where he meets many different species of bats. They teach him how they fly, what they eat, and where they like to live.

Welcome to Science Comics, an action-packed nonfiction graphic novel series for middle-grade readers! In this ultrasonic volume, Falynn Koch introduces us to a remarkable but misunderstood flying mammal: the bat!Falynn Kochcan be an illustrator, comic book artist, or storyteller, depending on when you ask. Born in Buffalo, New York, she then went everywhere, near and far, and wound up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with her two dogs and her fianc?. She graduated with a degree in sequential art from SCAD, andScience Comics:Batsis her first graphic novel with First Second. Her favorite things to draw are illogical mythological creatures.

The writing is accessible and engaging, and the level of content is detailed enough for young researchers, but casual browsers and graphic novel enthusiasts will find this an attractive choice, too. School Library Journal, starred review

With plenty of informative back matter, this inviting, engaging nonfiction comic is perfect for kids hungry for science. Booklist

Neatly drawn illustrations. Kirkus