The bat-poet
by Randall Jarrell
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A bat who can't sleep days makes up poems about the woodland creatures he now perceives for the first time.
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The Bat-Poet
October 1999, Tandem Library
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in English
0833513346 9780833513342
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First Sentence
"Once upon a time there was a bat-a little light brown bat, the color of coffee with cream in it."
Work Description
There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days-he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats, who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way.
Here in The Bat-Poet are the bat's own poems and the bat's 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 can't make beads or tails of them; the cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, and sparrows who fly in and out of Randall Jarrell's funny, lovable, truthful fable.
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