- Hardcover: 48 pages
- Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books (Dec 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0062050842
- ISBN-13: 978-0062050847
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.5 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,101,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Once upon a time there was a bat-a little light brown bat, the color of coffee with cream in it. Read the first page
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
The Bat-Poet and me.
21 April 2001
Format:Hardcover
This my favorite children's book. It is as good-- perhaps not as accessible-- as Charlotte's Web. It teaches real lessons about poetry and about loneliness. It asks questions that it can't answer: why do we like to read about things that frighten us? And it conveys the distinction between writing a poem that is praised and writing a poem that evokes real feelings.
That The Bat-Poet is so little known has always been a mystery to me. Then again, considering the state of publishing in this country, maybe it's not such a mystery. And maybe it's just as well that word-of-mouth is what brings new readers to the Bat-Poet.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
A WONDERFUL LITTLE BOOK.
28 April 2007
Format:Hardcover
Randall Jarrell has given us a beautiful little story here of a bat and Maurice Sendak has given us some wonderful illustrations in the form of black and white drawings. There is not much to not like about this work. The children love it, and the adult reading it to the children will find it just as interesting and hypnotic as the child, if not more so, but on a different level. The text is wonderfully simple and a pure joy to read. I recommened this one highly.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Present From A Teacher
18 Mar 2002
Format:Paperback
I am thirty-seven now and a teacher; I probably chose this profession because of Mr. Erick Burkett, who taught me and my chums when we were in sixth grade. He was patient and funny. He held us spellbound when he read L'Engle's "Wrinkle in Time". The next year he got married and moved away, but he saw some promise in me (I was constantly writing stories in sixth grade and showing them to him for his approval) and he wrote some very fatherly and wonderful letters to me until I was a senior in high school. When I was a senior he sent me "The Bat Poet" and encouraged me in my writing. Of course I wrote reams of poems after reading it. This is a very special book, especially for timid young students with dreams of being published.
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