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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--plunky banjoes, bat-a-tat drums, improvised instruments, country ballads, and the sweet cries of a bat with the blues.
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 newest celebration of bats and their dazzling, dizzying world will lift everyone's spirits with joyous noise and cheer!
Author Notes
Brian Lies is an author and illustrator. He was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1963.
Brian studied Psychology and British and American Literature at Brown University. After graduating from college he moved to Boston to study drawing and painting at the Boston Museum School (also known as the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Brian has had a career as an editorial and political illustrator working with a lot of magazines and newspapers. He has had political illustrations published in the Christian Science Monitor and the Boston Globe.
In 1989, Brian illustrated his first book, Flatfoot Fox and the Case of the Missing Eye. Since then, he's illustrated over twenty books, including his latest one, Bats at the Ballgame, which he also wrote. His other four written-and-illustrated books to date are the New York Times bestsellers Bats at the Beach and Bats at the Library, Hamlet and the Enormous Chinese Dragon Kite, and Hamlet and the Magnificent Sandcastle.
Brian lives in a seaside town in Massachusetts with his wife and daughter. He also visits schools to work with students on writing and illustrating stories.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 3-Lies's latest series installment lends itself nicely to an audio version. Narrator Chris Sorensen's voice has a soothing quality that will inspire repeat listens. The bats in this story are just waking up in the spring and flock to the sounds of music at a local theater, where at night the bats pick up the instruments and create their own musical entertainment. Fans of the series will easily be able to imagine the bats in the band without the help of illustrations as Lies's story is descriptive and Sorensen's narration is easy to follow. This would be a great addition to collections for younger listeners.-Betsy Davison, Cortland Free Library, NY (c) Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
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.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
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. (c) Copyright 2014. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Yet more bats tumble from Lies' belfry, this time to ignite a darkened summer theater with the gift of music.Lies, who has ushered bats through a night at the library, the beach and the ballpark, invites a colony into a playhouse after lights out. There, he carves out a piece of the small hours for his readers, that strange time of collywobbles and spooky quiet. The playhouse is anything but, as the bats have decided to light up the dark with "a little night music." In tuneful couplets laced with fluid if demanding words like "sitar" and "improvise," the bats get busy with jazzis that Dizzy, with those cheeks?and rockis that Leon Russell, in Uncle Sam's hat?and a camellia-adorned bat woman with a broken heart: "Her feelings fill the room with blue," a room that Lies has draped with indigo. The paintings are full of mood and spot-lit color, the bats upside down and right-side up, the rhyme both casual and emotive. There is no doubt that Lies has made an effort to please adult readers with plenty of allusions: In what passes as their dusk, a bat takes his fiddle to the roof. But the bats never fly over young readers' heads. They are there to entertain, and that they do.Again with the bats, evoking another call of "encore!" (Picture book. 4-8) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.