Children's Book Review:

"Stellaluna" by Janell Cannon is about how a mother fruit bat loves her baby, Stellaluna, very much and would not let anything happen to her. Until one night, an owl attacks the bats, knocking Stellaluna out of her mother's safe embrace, and she falls into the forest. One morning she wakes up and is in a sparrow's nest filled with three baby birds named Pip, Flitter, and Flap. The mother sparrow will only let Stellaluna stay with them if she only ate bugs, doesn't hang by her feet and sleeps at night. She did her best but she couldn't help wanting to fly at night or hang upside down to sleep. Then one day, Stellaluna was separated from her bird family and was discovered sleeping with her head up by a very surprised bat. The other bats came to see this bat sleeping with her head up and she is happily reunited with her mother. When her bird family comes to visit, they discovered the being bat-like is just as hard for baby birds as being bird-like was for her.

I chose this book because I think that it exemplifies how even though we are different in our own ways we as humans or animals are so much alike. This book values the importance of finding our own identity, why people make and break promises, and what makes up a family. This is one of my many favorite books that I have read to my children at my internship last spring semester and they would always ask me to read it everyday.