By: Brian Lies Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Houghton Mifflin Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 32 Publication Date: April 12, 2006 Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Product Description: Quick, call out! Tell all you can reach: the night is just perfect for bats at the beach!
So pack your buckets, banjos, and blankets—don't forget the moon-tan lotion—and wing with this bunch of fuzzy bats to where foamy sea and soft sand meet.
Brian Lies's enchanting art and cheery beachside verse will inspire bedtime imaginations again and again. Come visit a bedazzling world of moonlight, firelight, and . . . bats!
Not just for bat lovers Recieved this as a baby shower gift because we like bats and already I love to read this as our bed time book. Gorgeous illustrations, nice flowing story and perfect for an evening reading. Though I would have loved to have this on a board book; I don't let the baby play with the book.
Stupendous! This is a stupendous book! Wonderful prose and gorgeous illustrations appeal to both children and adults, and hopefully will encourage bat tolerance, if not interest.
Bats at the Beach The story is cute and clever. The art is great. I can't wait to share it with my grandkids!!! I heard a review on NPR and thought that I must have this book. I'll probably keep it at my house so they'll have something to read when they come.
great pictures, text not quite so good First, let me say that my children love looking at the pictures in this book. The pages are wide and full of bats doing all kinds of fun things. I give it four stars based on the illustrations. The text is a bit lacking. Some thought was obviously put into it: the author fits in fun things like "bug-mallows" and "pickled slugs". However, the text is rhyming verse and Lies doesn't use consistent meter. I found it a bit clunky to read and felt like the words drew attention to themselves instead of working together as a whole. It's still worth getting, especially if you know a little kid like mine who loves bats and bugs. The pictures are excellent and kids won't notice anything amiss in the text.
Who knew bats were so fun! I read one reviewer who gave this book 1 star he/she bought it and found it to be nothing but "fluff". I have to firmly disagree I found this book enticing it had a new concept and that was bats in a whole new light (well kinda since the book takes place at night), but normally if you hear about bats their depicted only in Halloween books made out to be creepy, swooping, bug slurping cave dwellers. These bats are FUN, FUN, FUN as is the book! The text is rhythmic and the illustrations are luminous, I highly recommend it for ages 2+.
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