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* A New York Times Bestseller
* A Junior Library Guild Selection


국내에서는 이미 "바닷가에 간 박쥐"와 "도서관에 간 박쥐"라는 제목으로 번역서가 출간된 브라이언 라이스의 베스트셀러 그림책 Bats 시리즈 중 최신작입니다.

이 책에서는 밤이 찾아 온 야구장에 박쥐들이 모여 야구 시합을 하는 이야기가 브라이언 라이스 특유의 생동감 넘치는 그림과 함께 수록되어 있습니다. 0대0으로 지루하게 진행되던 경기가 막판에 상대팀에게 1점을 뺏기는 바람에 위기에 몰리게 됩니만, 마지막회에 주인공 박쥐팀은 극적인 역전 승리를 거두게 되는 내용이 흥미진진하게 펼쳐집니다.

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What is 하드커버? 양장본이라고도 불리우며, 표지가 단단한 판지로 만들어진 책입니다. 판지를 천이나 가죽으로 감싸기도 합니다. 책의 속지는 일반적으로 중성처리된 종이(Acid-free paper)를 사용해서 잘 변질이 되지 않기 때문에 오랫동안 보관하기에 적합합니다. 이 종류의 책은 더스트 재킷, 또는 더스트 커버로 불리는 표지덮개가 함께 있는 경우가 많습니다. 간혹 내부 속지가 콩기름 코팅이 된 경우 고약한 냄새가 나는 책도 있습니다.

하드커버책입니다.






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Hardcover: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0547249705
ISBN-13: 978-0547249704
책 크기: 28 cm x 23.5 cm



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Book Description
Hurry up! Come one'come all! We're off to watch the bats play ball! You'll never forget your first game: the green so green, the presence of heroes past, and togetherness with family and friends, rooting for the home team. But you think humans are the only ones who enjoy America's national pastime? Grab your bat'the other kind'and your mitt, and join these captivating bats as they flutter off to watch their all-stars compete. How about a mothdog? Or some Cricket Jack? In sweeping compositions that transport fans to the rightside-up and upside-down world of bats at play, Brian Lies treats us to a whole new ballgame.



Kirkus Reviews *Starred Review*
Previously Lies has given his bats nights at the library and the beach with great success. Now they play night baseball on a ballfield laid out under a circus tent with crowds of bat fans and vendors selling appropriate snacks like “mothdogs.” The game proceeds with swoops and slides and a win for the home team. The action is described in verse with the rhymes in easy, breezy aabb form for setup and denouement and heightened “Casey at the Bat” cadences and couplets for the game itself. Lies’s acrylic illustrations appear as full- and double-page spreads and scattered, unframed vignettes, and all are filled with copious detail depicting uniforms, regalia and play-by-play. The visual effect is quite stunning, with some fantastically disorienting upside-down spreads to reflect the fans’ hanging position, and much of the language is utterly delicious. A broad knowledge of baseball and its place in the American consciousness is assumed, as is an ability to roll with rather sophisticated vocabulary and phrasing. But as a read-aloud by a baseball fan, it’s sure to inspire a love of the game—and maybe of bats as well.


Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*
Baseball stadiums have an innate magic, never more so than in the hands of Lies, whose latest has the winged creatures gathering for an epic game, complete with “beenuts and Cricket Jack,” and an upside down audience. Smooth, unhurried rhymes illuminate a hidden world where bats, like humans, “feel a magic shift,/ and ride the currents of the game/ as time is set adrift.” Each gleaming page is thick with detail, from the bats’ first arrival (“We wing from dark to dazzling bright,/ startled by the stunning sight”) to the final play. Fans of the other baseball bats will certainly enjoy these ones.


School Library Journal
As in Bats at the Beach (2006) and Bats at the Library (2008, both Houghton Harcourt), Lies's luminous acrylic illustrations are the highlight here. The bats are earnest and cuddly, with translucent eyes and twitchy noses. Here, they're engaged in a topsy-turvy baseball game of dizzying perspectives. The game is played on the ground, though the participants swoop, glide, and soar around the bases and the spectators hang upside down above them in the stands. Tand Cricket Jack, as the grounds crew marks the baselines with powdered sugar and rakes the pitcher's mound with a fork. Careful readers will find plenty of inventive details to make this latest outing he illustrations, with brilliant colors and eye-catching details, carry the story when the verses fall flat. Fans will enjoy the bats' version of the game: flying vendors offer mothdogs to the bats' nocturnal world worthwhile.