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This appealing story of a family's encounter with a baby bat instantly piques interest with a dramatic prologue showing bats swooping onto a windowsill framed by the night sky. Then the scene shifts to a sunny afternoon when "something bumpy and rubbery and alive" is found inside Dad's empty boot. As children and parents care for their foundling (prying its claws from the boot, feeding it milk from an eyedropper, constructing a shoebox house), afternoon fades into evening?and the creature's mother returns unexpectedly. In her authorial debut, Cannon (illustrator of Whistle Home) moves the text at an optimal, easy-going rate via enthusiastic narration and economical yet natural dialogue. Soft-hued vignettes capture bat peculiarities (a sheer, silk-like wing; a belly that turns white when filled with milk) and add subtle humor (as the family speculates on the orphan over lunch, the boy nibbles his sandwich into the shape of a bat). Pure pleasure for bat-lovers; guaranteed therapy for bat-avoiders. Ages 4-7.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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PreSchool-Grade 2?One Saturday morning, two children find a baby bat in a boot. They place it in a shoebox and feed and care for it throughout the day, speculating about how it got in the boot and where its mother might be. After supper, the creature begins chittering and its mother swoops into the house and scoops it up. Based on an actual incident, a few facts are seamlessly incorporated into the text, as is a boxed insert on "bat luck." The story, straightforward and gracefully told, is sandwiched between several pages that poetically describe the creatures' nightly foray into the house. The illustrations, rendered in watercolor, tempera, and pencil, effectively convey the events, particularly the drama of the rescue. The palette of tans, creams, and blues enables the brown-and-charcoal bat to stand out. The balanced composition and the generous use of double-page spreads lend immediacy to the story. This book makes the subject less fearsome to children, and will serve as a companion to Ruth Horowitz's Bat Time (Four Winds, 1991; o.p.), Janell Cannon's Stellaluna (Harcourt, 1993), and Don Freeman's less realistic Hattie the Backstage Bat (Puffin, 1988). It will also lead curious readers to nonfiction such as Joyce Milton's Bats! (Grosset, 1993) and Ann Earle's Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats (HarperCollins, 1995).?Cynthia K. Richey, Mt. Lebanon Public Library, Pittsburgh, PA
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This appealing story of a family's encounter with a baby bat instantly piques interest with a dramatic prologue showing bats swooping onto a windowsill framed by the night sky. Then the scene shifts to a sunny afternoon when "something bumpy and rubbery and alive" is found inside Dad's empty boot. As children and parents care for their foundling (prying its claws from the boot, feeding it milk from an eyedropper, constructing a shoebox house), afternoon fades into evening?and the creature's mother returns unexpectedly. In her authorial debut, Cannon (illustrator of Whistle Home) moves the text at an optimal, easy-going rate via enthusiastic narration and economical yet natural dialogue. Soft-hued vignettes capture bat peculiarities (a sheer, silk-like wing; a belly that turns white when filled with milk) and add subtle humor (as the family speculates on the orphan over lunch, the boy nibbles his sandwich into the shape of a bat). Pure pleasure for bat-lovers; guaranteed therapy for bat-avoiders. Ages 4-7.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2?One Saturday morning, two children find a baby bat in a boot. They place it in a shoebox and feed and care for it throughout the day, speculating about how it got in the boot and where its mother might be. After supper, the creature begins chittering and its mother swoops into the house and scoops it up. Based on an actual incident, a few facts are seamlessly incorporated into the text, as is a boxed insert on "bat luck." The story, straightforward and gracefully told, is sandwiched between several pages that poetically describe the creatures' nightly foray into the house. The illustrations, rendered in watercolor, tempera, and pencil, effectively convey the events, particularly the drama of the rescue. The palette of tans, creams, and blues enables the brown-and-charcoal bat to stand out. The balanced composition and the generous use of double-page spreads lend immediacy to the story. This book makes the subject less fearsome to children, and will serve as a companion to Ruth Horowitz's Bat Time (Four Winds, 1991; o.p.), Janell Cannon's Stellaluna (Harcourt, 1993), and Don Freeman's less realistic Hattie the Backstage Bat (Puffin, 1988). It will also lead curious readers to nonfiction such as Joyce Milton's Bats! (Grosset, 1993) and Ann Earle's Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats (HarperCollins, 1995).?Cynthia K. Richey, Mt. Lebanon Public Library, Pittsburgh, PA
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Literature & Writing Connections : How to Make Books with Children - Grade Level 1 through 6 by Joy Evans on page 33
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