Laurence Pringle is the recipient of three major awards for
his body of work--the Eva L. Gordon Award for Children's Science
Literature, the Washington Post--Children's Book Guild Nonfiction
Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. He lives in West Nyack,
New York.
Meryl Henderson has illustrated most of the books in the
Strange and Wonderful series. She lives in upstate New York.
"Youngsters will be immediately hooked by the opening text ("If you were a bat, you could stay up all night. You could hang by your thumbs, or hang by your toenails. -- Bulletin for the Center for Children's books With its appealing illustrations in an eye-catching arrangement and clearly written text, Pringle's Bats! Is equal to the best introduction on the subject for this age level - School Library Journal"
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