![]() ![]() Supports the Common Core State Standards From the Back Cover There was once a little brown bat who couldnt sleep days-he kept waking up and looking at the world. ![]() With illustrations by Maurice Sendak, The Bat-Poet -a New York Times Best Illustrated Childrens Book selection-is a collection of the bats own poems and the bats own world: the owl who almost eats him the mockingbird whose irritable genius almost overpowers him the chipmunk who loves his poems, and the bats who cant make heads or tails of them the cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, and sparrows who fly in and out of Randall Jarrells funny, lovable, truthful fable. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. Book Synopsis There was once a little brown bat who couldnt sleep days-he kept waking up and looking at the world. The combination of prose and verse has never been bettered.-Louis Untermeyer. ![]() (and) speaks to every child (New York Times Book Review) combines the work of two bestselling childrens book talents. About the Book This shining jewel of a book (that) cries to be read aloud. ![]()
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