BATS - STORIES
(excerpts from posts)
(If you want to retell any of the stories listed below, be sure to obtain permission from the copyright holder if the material is not in the public domain)

1) Bat folklore
http://www.batcon.org/batsmag/v11n4-4.html
http://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/bats/resources/species.htm
http://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/nature/bats/folklore.htm
http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/bat_myths.htm
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/bats/

2) Why the Bat Flies at Night: a Modac Indian Folk Tale - retold by Joseph Sherman in YOUNG AMERICAN, Oct. 17-31.

3) When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing by Virginia Hamilton.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0590473727/104-2288514-8659115?v=glance&n=283155

4) Also found these:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/fsn09.htm
http://www.lpb.org/programs/swappingstories/langley_bat.html

5) The Bloody Bat - the joke story about the vampire bat who didn't see a low-hanging branch.

6) Jack and the Haunted House - from the perspective of one of the bats who lived in the chimney and saw the whole thing!

7) The Bloody Bat - for those who don't know it (and I find it quite an effective encore), here is a version one of my 11-year-old pupils once wrote of it:
http://www.talesandmusic.de/tales/bloody_vampire.htm

(This web page updated 12/6/03; 1/1/06)