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The Bat-Poet

The Bat-Poet - Paperback

by Randall Jarrell
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Availability:In StockContributor:Randall Jarrell, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)Audience:Ages 9-12Publish date:1996-10-25Pages:48
Language:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollinsISBN-13:9780062059055ISBN-10:006205905XUPC:9780062059055Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Animals, Poetry (see also Stories in Verse)Book Topic:NocturnalSize:8.86 x 6.34 x 0.16 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC41EXNRXH

There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days--he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way.

With illustrations by Maurice Sendak, The Bat-Poet--a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book selection--is a collection of the bat's own poems and the bat's 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 can't make heads or tails of them; the cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, and sparrows who fly in and out of Randall Jarrell's funny, lovable, truthful fable.

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Language:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollinsISBN-13:9780062059055ISBN-10:006205905XUPC:9780062059055Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Animals, Poetry (see also Stories in Verse)Book Topic:NocturnalSize:8.86 x 6.34 x 0.16 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC41EXNRXH
Jarrell, Randall: - Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) received the National Book Award for his book of poems The Woman at the Washington Zoo. His children's book The Animal Family was named a Newbery Honor Book, and his translation of The Three Sisters was produced by The Actors Studio Theatre.Sendak, Maurice: -

In addition to Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's books include Kenny's Window, Very Far Away, The Sign on Rosie's Door, Nutshell Library (consisting of Chicken Soup with Rice, Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny, and Pierre), Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, and Bumble-Ardy.

He received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are; the 1970 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration; the 1983 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, given by the American Library Association in recognition of his entire body of work; and a 1996 National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America. In 2003, he received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an international prize for children's literature established by the Swedish government.Jarrell, Randall: -

Randall Jarrell (1914-65) received the National Book Award for his book of poems The Woman at the Washington Zoo. His children's book The Animal Family was named a Newbery Honor Book, and his translation of The Three Sisters was produced by the Actors Studio Theatre.


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Publisher: HarperCollins

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HarperCollins Edition

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Randall Jarrell, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)

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Randall Jarrell

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