Author: Janell Cannon
Title: Stellaluna
Illustrator: Janell Cannon
Readability score: Kindergarten-Grade 2
Genre: Fiction
Sub genre: Fantasy
Theme: Always be yourself
Primary and secondary characters: Stellaluna is the primary character. The secondary characters are Pip, Flitter, Flap, Mama Bat, Mama Bird, Bat one, Bat two
Awards: ABBY award, California Young Reader Medal, Keystone to Reading Book Awards, Reading Rainbow Feature award, and Southern California Council on Literature for Young People award
Date of publication: 1993
Publishing company: Harcourt, Inc.
ISBN number: 3-3006-01095-8575
Summary: A baby fruit bat is accidentally dropped by her mother. She tries her best to fit into a nest of other birds, where she is accepted, but she must adopt the qualities of her new family and try not to be the bat that she is. She has a hard time trying not to fly at night or hang upside down to sleep. One day she is separated from her bird family when she begins to start sleeping up as she has been taught. Stellaluna is finally reunited with her mother after the other bats discover the unique qualities about her that she adopted from her new family. They all wonder how the birds and the bats can be so different, yet have so much in common.
This picture book really demonstrated to me the importance of multiculturalism and other cultures. Children can see that just because they come from different backgrounds that they can share many of the same characteristics or qualities. I would use this book to talk about the difference between bats and birds as well and compare and contrast them.
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