The totality charms by turns the eye, the ear, and the Imagination, and as true poetry must, it satisfies the heart- School Library JournalOne of the most entrancing books for children of all ages, including mine, that I have ever read.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:05:02 Associated-names Sendak, Maurice, ill Boxid IA1981714 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Review Quotes This is a shining jewel of a book.It cries to be read aloud at story hours, in classrooms, and at bedtime, for it speaks to every child.- School Library JournalChildren will cherish The Bat-Poet, and they wont stop reading it, no matter how old they get.- Gene Shalit, McCallsPoet Randall Jarrell says us his own song in a luminous, flawless prose that dances from the tongue and in batpoems of piercing lyric sweetness- Maurice Sendaks halflit woodland scenes and creatures are stroked exquisitely by pen in ink more gray than black. 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. 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. 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.

The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell