![]() I may have read this when I was young, because I loved The Animal Family so much when I was a child, but I didn’t really remember it. ![]() Maurice Sendak’s illustrations are lovely I was particularly taken by a two-page spread of a “peaceable kingdom” sort of picture late in the book. The poems are lovely the story itself is written in the spare style common to poets, so every word has a place, and the book is quite short (I think it could easily be read and even savored in half an hour, even though it’s not a picture book). ![]() Of course, once convinced to listen, both the mockingbird and the chipmunk like hearing the poems about themselves, as we are all prone to greedily enjoy observations of ourselves. First, the mockingbird, then the chipmunk, both of whom are the subject of poems by the bat, who was initially inspired by the singing of the mockingbird. ![]() Our furry brown hero begins staying awake during the day (when all the other bats sleep), noticing other animals. Besides being a perfect vehicle for a poet to share their gift with children, The Bat-Poet also ends up being a paean to bats in general. ![]() Poet Randall Jarrell’s story of one small, extraordinary bat who sees the world differently from the other bats. ![]()
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