Bats at the Library by Brian Lies
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Book Summary Author: Brian Lies Brand: Houghton Mifflin Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2008-09-08 ISBN: 061899923X Number of pages: 32 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children |
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Book Reviews of the Bats at the Library
Customer Review: Unique Library Themed Characters
Summary: 4 Stars
I work in a public library so am always interested in stories set in libraries. There's hundreds of children's picture books doing just that but Brian Lies has come up with an original idea of having bats as his main characters. Well actually its not original characters in the fact that this is a sequel to his very successful Bats at the Beach but original in the bats/library combination.
Anyway the basic plot is a librarian has left a window open and the call goes out into the night that there is access to the library. Apparently bats have been waiting on edge for something like this to happen. A window left open is a rare event and these bats will not hesitate to take up this opportunity. Inside the library the bats use the overhead projector to make shadow puppets (you'd think they could do this with a full moon outside all the time but who knows), read the books and use their imagination to act out scenes from them.
Not the most interesting of storylines but the pictures are very well drawn. One bat is wearing a lifejacket which is never explained though.
For those who are big fans of bats, I'd check this out.
The best three books I've come across that are set in a library are Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians by Jackie Hopkins, Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen and Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk.