Books with title Welcome to the World of Bats

Have fun meeting the Twinkle Star Friends. Watch them come to life in their exciting starry world!This adorable rhyming board book, perfect for little story lovers, will encourage young children to recognise simple words. This is an ideal book for parents and children to enjoy together.Books in the Twinkle Star range:• Welcome to the World of the Twinkle Stars• Cedric Star Starts School• Celia Star Loves Ballet• Sidney Star Gets a Surprise!• Lydia Star has a Party• Victor Star Cannot Sleep• Edith Star Loses her Purse• The Twinkle Stars go on Holiday• The Christmas Twinkle Star• A Twinkle Star Christmas

Elephants are very social creatures who live in herds. They have been observed to cry, laugh, and even "hug" each other. The elephant trunk contains 100,000 muscle units and is used to grasp and strip leaves from trees, drink water, spray themselves to cool down, smell their environment, and as a snorkel when crossing deep waters. Elephants are intelligent and sensitive animals who deserve a closer look. Includes a table of contents, index, sidebars, and full of extraordinary photography throughout.

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! is the funny, serious, and compelling new novel by Fannie Flagg, author of the beloved Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (and prize-winning co-writer of the classic movie).Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery.Among the colorful cast of characters are: Sookie, of Selma, Alabama, Dena's exuberant college roommate, who is everything that Dena is not; she is thrilled by Dena's success and will do everything short of signing autographs for her; Sookie's a mom, a wife, and a Kappa forever Dena's cousins, the Warrens, and her aunt Elner, of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, endearing, loyal, talkative, ditsy, and, in their way, wise Neighbor Dorothy, whose spirit hovers over them all through the radio show that she broadcast from her home in the 1940s Sidney Capello, pioneer of modern sleaze journalism and privateer of privacy, and Ira Wallace, his partner in tabloid television Several doctors, all of them taken with--and almost taken in by-DenaThere are others, captivated by a woman who tries to go home again, not knowing where home or love lie.From the Hardcover edition.

Did you know that snakes have no eyelids, so they can't wink or blink? They even sleep with their eyes wide open. Popular children's author Diane Swanson takes young readers close to the earth to discover the world of snakes with cool facts and colorful photographs. Stories of amazingly fats snakes and snakes that know how to play dead will charm children. Discover where snakes make their homes, how they shed their skin, and what wild and wacky food they like to eat. Includes a table of contents, index, sidebars, and full of extraordinary photography throughout.

Wild horses are symbols of strength, adventure and freedom. But did you know that the ones in North America are descended from tame animals that arrived with the explorers and settlers? Wild horses can walk within an hour of their birth, sleep standing up, and grow shaggy hair to keep warm in winter. They also love to buck and play, so kick up your heels and discover these enchanting creatures. Includes a table of contents, index, sidebars, and full of extraordinary photography throughout.

4 cassettes / 5 hoursRead by the Author, Fannie Flagg!!Listen to Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!, the funny, serious, and compelling new AudioBook by Fannie Flagg, author of the beloved Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (and prize-winning co-writer of the classic movie).Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery.Among the colorful cast of characters are: Sookie, of Selma, Alabama, Dena's exuberant college roommate, who is everything that Dena is not; she is thrilled by Dena's success and will do everything short of signing autographs for her; Sookie's a mom, a wife, and a Kappa forever Dena's cousins, the Warrens, and her aunt Elner, of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, endearing, loyal, talkative, ditsy, and, in their way, wise Neighbor Dorothy, whose spirit hovers over them all through the radio show that she broadcast from her home in the 1940s Sidney Capello, pioneer of modern sleaze journalism and privateer of privacy, and Ira Wallace, his partner in tabloid television Several doctors, all of them taken with--and almost taken in by-DenaThere are others, captivated by a woman who tries to go home again, not knowing where home or love lie.