Knocked from her mother’s safe embrace by an attacking owl, Stellaluna lands headfirst in a bird’s nest. This adorable baby fruit bat’s world is literally turned upside down when she is adopted by the occupants of the nest and adapts to their peculiar bird habits. Two pages of notes at the end of the story provide factual information about bats.
This sweet bats book can be used in speech therapy to address social/emotional issues having friends of all shapes and sizes. It is also great for problem solving, character analysis, figurative language, sequencing and for describing! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using Stellaluna in speech therapy below: