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Stellaluna
Product Description
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.
Dimensions: 10.55" L x 10.15" W
Details: Hardcover, 48 pages
Author: Janell Cannon
Testimonials
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. "Delightful and informative but never didactic; a splendid debut."
—Kirkus Reviews
Read aloud or recommend Stellaluna for fictional perspectives on bats. In this tale, which concludes with two pages of facts about the flying mammals, a baby fruit bat is adopted by birds.
— Children's Literature
About Janell Cannon
Self-taught artist and writer Janell Cannon has always admired animals,especially creatures that have been misunderstood or neglected. Her love ofbats, spiders, Komodo dragons, and snakes inspired her work at a publiclibrary, where she developed award-winning summer reading programs aboutthese unusual animals. While conducting research for a program about bats,Janell found only two books on the subject, both out of print. She decided itwas time to make her own story about these wonderful creatures.
Janell Cannon created Stellaluna (1994) in hopes that she would transformyoung people's fear of bats into informed affection. "Fruit bats don't drinkblood and won't get caught in your hair. I hope to show them in a positivelight so that they might be given more respect," she says. Janell points out inthe book that fruit bats benefit our environment as they pollinate plants whileforaging for nectar and distribute, through their droppings, seeds from fruiteaten whole. The artist and writer also wanted to touch readers with a storyabout a friendship shared by two different kinds of creatures, a bat and threebaby birds. Cannon likens the book to "a mirror, so that anyone who looks intoit will see their own story their own way." She never suspected her book wouldbecome a runaway bestseller.
After the success of Stellaluna, Janell left her job at the library in order todevote more time to writing and illustrating books. She was happy finally tohave the opportunity to tell the adventures of one of the mysterious, gentlecreatures who entered her imagination more than ten years ago. BeforeStellaluna was even a thought, Janell was creating series of elaborate, detaileddrawings of what she calls Fuzzheads. In Trupp: A Fuzzhead Tale (HarcourtBrace, April, 1995), she has created the first of many stories about theseintelligent animals as they explore the world of humans.
Janell Cannon has ideas for many more books about Fuzzheads and "animalsthat make people uncomfortable." She works from her home/studio in southernCalifornia, which she shares with a cat and a parrot.
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