Overview / 简介: |
Sense is the song you sing out into the world,
and the song the world sings back to you.
With these words, Chiro's mother sends him off into the night for the first time alone. It's an adventure, but how will he find his way? And how will he find his way home? |
From Organization / 国外机构评价: |
| In this gentle midnight allegory, a young bat is encouraged by his mother to strike out on his own into the wide world outside their cave. Little Chiro, far more adorable than your average bat, thanks to the puppy-dog face Long gives him, is worried about not being able to see in the dark, to which his mother offers the reassurance that there are other ways to see . . . Use your good sense. Kids up on their chiropteran knowledge will see where this is going: Chiro floats through intimidating black washes until he begins to sing, a ray of light emanating from his mouth that illuminates the path ahead as he flies past the woods, through a flock of geese, and to the pond, where he gobbles contentedly on tasty bugs. Paralleling good sense with both a song to light a path and with a bat’s echolocation might require kids to flex their conceptualization muscles a bit, but Long’s gorgeous artwork, in which the warmly hued bat flits through steep, rich darkness, goes a long way toward making this one a winner. Preschool-Grade 1. |
Foreign Customer Review / 国外客户评价: |
| My son, aged 3, looooves this book. He is very interested in bats, so our librarian recommended this gem in addition to some non-fiction titles. We checked it out so often that we ended buying a copy. I also adore this book. The language is stirring and evocative, and the illustrations are perfectly paired with the text. It's rare that a picture book is this lush and atmospheric without being creepy. It helps that the baby bat, Chiro, has a darling little pot belly.
The premise/plot of the book, from which the title is derived, is this: Chiro (like chiro-ptera, get it?) is afraid to leave the cave on his own, because it's dark and he can't see well. His mother tells him to use his voice to "sing" out to the world, and the world will "sing" back. Sure enough, he is able to find his way by listening to the "songs" of the objects and animals in his flightpath, and he grows more confident. After finding all the bugs he can eat, he explores until night ends and it's time to return to the cave. The text never uses the term "echolocation", but the principle is clearly and beautifully described.
This is a gorgeous book! My son and I discovered it shortly after he turned three, but I'd recommend it for any child who enjoys picture books. Also good for growing readers as there is a varied and moderately difficult vocabulary. |
About the Author / 作者介绍: |
| ARI BERK is the author of The Secret History of Giants (NCTE Notable Award winner), William Shakespeare--His Life and Times (UK's SLA Children's Choice Award winner), and numerous other books for children and adults including The Runes of Elfland (with artist Brian Froud), The Secret History of Hobgoblins, The Secret History of Mermaids, Coyote Speaks, and most recently, Death Watch (Book One of The Undertaken Trilogy). When not writing, he moonlights as professor of mythology and folklore at Central Michigan University. He lives in Michigan with his wife and son. Visit him at ariberk.com
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#1 New York Times Best Seller LOREN LONG's illustrations have received two gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and his first picture book, Angela Johnson's I Dream of Trains, won the Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award for Illustrations and his inspired interpretation of Walt Whitman's When I Heard Learn'd Astronomer was a Golden Kite Honor. A much sought after editorial artist whose work has appeared in Times, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and Atlantic Monthly, Loren is widely known for the illustrations in Madonna's #1 New York Times Best Seller Mr. Peabody's Apples. And Watty Piper's The Little Engine That Could. He lives in West Chester, Ohio, with his wife, Tracy, and two sons. |
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