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andizor's review
3.0
The Scientists in the Field nonfiction series for kids is one of my favorite set of books EVER. The stories are interesting, the pictures are bright and eye-catching, and it makes me interested in some of the weirdest science. Like frog science. Or tree kangaroo science. The Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bats isn't one of those books, but it doesn't follow the same formula. Markle takes the reader through the mystery of the little brown bat's slow demise and the attempt to save the species. The book pretty clearly follows the scientific method without being explicit (really, it could have been explicit considering the audience). My one beef with the writing is that I didn't know until the very end of the book that the problem with little brown bats is still on-going. Researchers still haven't quite found a way to prevent the little brown bats from getting white nose syndrome. I'm not sure if this was a deliberate style decision, but it bothered me to come to the end of the book and realize that the case remains still partially unsolved. Unlike other children's nonfiction books, this has a fabulous bibliography at the end for further reading. If you have little scientists at your house, this is one that I would highly recommend in addition to all of the Scientists in the Field books.
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