Megabat
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
A sweet and hilarious chapter book about a boy and a bat, two unlikely friends who bond over loneliness, jellyrolls and Darth Vader.
Daniel Misumi has just moved to a new house. It's big and old and far away from his friends and his life before. AND it's haunted . . . or is it?
Megabat was just napping on a papaya one day when he was stuffed in a box and shipped halfway across the world. Now he's living in an old house far from home, feeling sorry for himself and accidentally scaring the people who live there.
Daniel realizes it's not a ghost in his new house. It's a bat. And he can talk. And he's actually kind of cute.
Megabat realizes that not every human wants to whack him with a broom. This one shares his smooshfruit.
Add some buttermelon, juice boxes, a lightsaber and a common enemy and you've got a new friendship in the making!
This charming, funny story is brought to life by Kass Reich's warm and adorable illustrations. There's never been a bat this cute -- readers will be rooting for Megabat and Daniel from page one!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Daniel hates his new house and misses the friends from his former hometown. But he cheers up after discovering that he's sharing his attic bedroom with a talking fruit bat, Megabat, who was accidentally shipped to Canada from the Borneo rainforest in a box of papayas. Like Daniel, Megabat feels out of place and alone; as his tears create puddles on the floor, he explains, "A bat is dripping. From a great sadness." Daniel introduces his new roommate to Star Wars movies and apple juice, and the bat becomes hooked on both, even fashioning a lightsaber from his juice-box straw. The boy enlists the help of his next-door neighbor, Talia, to return Megabat to Borneo, but multiple plans backfire. Augmented by amusing graphite illustrations from Reich (Carson Crosses Canada), Humphrey (the Clara Humble series) tells a story that intensifies when Megabat falls in love with the pigeon who saves his life, cementing his decision to stay in Canada and precipitating, in Megabat speak, "a muchly happy ending." The winged hero of this warm tale returns in Megabat and Fancy Cat, due out next April. Ages 7 10.
