Bats at the Library

Lies, Brian. 2008. Bats at the Library, Boston, Ms, Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 978-0-618-99923-1

The plot of the book starts with a colony of bats out and about in the evening. They come across an open library window and fly into the library. During the evening bats enjoy different adventures, games, and stories. While in the library the bats begin to feel apart of the stories. They start loving to read and then they have to go because the sun has come, but they carry the love of reading as they leave.

I loved the book it had great vocabulary and realy flowed poetically. This book also made me want to read it aloud to a classroom in my future library. Their were five reviews on the back of the book by New York Times, Book Sense Pick, Daniel Pinkwater with NPR Weekend Edition Sunday, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal and Newsday. They were very positive about the book.

While I was reading this book I envisioned a begining of school lesson to start with the rules of the library what my expectations are. I would read the story as an introduction and use the bat as examples of children in the library and how their eyes are open to the possibilities of reading.

Another lesson I would use this book for would be if a teacher needed vocabulary for frontloading in a lesson. I could introduce it or check it out to her/him to help introduce words.