Bats in the Band
Bats in the Band
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Annotation: In this symphonious companion to Brian Lies's best-selling Bat Book series, strike up the band, celebrate, and share music! For fans of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and the Llama Llama series.
 
Reviews: 4
Catalog Number: #199400
Format: Perma-Bound Edition
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Copyright Date: 2019
Edition Date: 2014 Release Date: 09/10/19
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: Publisher: 0-358-11791-7 Perma-Bound: 0-7804-6462-1
ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-358-11791-9 Perma-Bound: 978-0-7804-6462-9
Dewey: E
Dimensions: 23 x 28 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
Horn Book

The creator of Bats at the Beach takes his bat cast to the theater, where various bat acts perform rock, country, classical, and the blues--music whose counterintuitive salubriousness inspires the best of many good rhymes: "It's hard to figure--eyes get wetter, / ...so how is it that we feel better?" Chiaroscurist Lies was born to depict the nighttime stage.

Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)

Given how important echolocation is to bats, it should come as no surprise that they-re secret music-lovers. That-s the case with Lies-s colony, anyway, back in a fourth book. When night falls, the bats head to a summer theater where act after act takes the stage-there-s a string section that hangs upside down while playing, as well as singers in a variety of genres (-Next up, there-s a country song-/ some lonesome bat done someone wrong-). Humorous touches abound in Lies-s characteristically polished acrylic paintings, and the bats- infectiously joyful music-making will have readers reaching for the nearest noisemaker or instrument. Ages 4-8. (Aug.)

School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 3 Bats wake up in the spring, hungry for food and even hungrier for sound. Their quest for a little night music leads them to a deserted summertime theater where a single light beckons them inside, past huckster bats selling T-shirts and posters, to the stage where other bats gather with improvised instruments. "We sing together as one voice./It seems the very walls rejoice!" A classical quartet, suspended upside down on matchstick perches, play violins, viola, and cello. A one-bat band is followed by a country bat sitting on a bottle cork and singing lonesome songs. A jazz bat's melancholy voice turns the room blue, while in a far corner little bats listen to children's songs. As the evening progresses, the main stage fills with bats. "Hearts are pumping, drums are thumping,/everything that's loose is jumping." Too soon, daylight signals the concert's end. Bats fly home to their rafters and dream of performing with the band. Luminous acrylic illustrations and rhyming text bring this nighttime concert joyfully to life. Like Bats at the Beach (2006), Bats at the Library (2008), and Bats at the Ballgame (2010, all Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), this latest adventure will enchant children, who will want to hear it, read it, and relive it over and over again. Mary Jean Smith, formerly at Southside Elementary School, Lebanon, TN

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School Library Journal
Word Count: 761
Reading Level: 3.6
Interest Level: P-2
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 3.6 / points: 0.5 / quiz: 169748 / grade: Lower Grades
Lexile: AD600L
Guided Reading Level: O
Fountas & Pinnell: O

In this symphonious companion to Brian Lies’s best-selling Bat Book series, strike up the band, celebrate, and share music! For fans of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and the Llama Llama series.

The look on our faces is easy to read:
a little night music is just what we need!

A late-spring night sky fills with bats flocking to a theater already echoing and booming with delightful sounds of music—bat music!

Join this one-of-a-kind music festival as the bats celebrate the rhythm of the night and the positive power of music. Brian Lies’s bats and their dazzling, dizzying world will lift everyone’s spirits with joyous noise and cheer.


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