Item
Bat's Big Game
- Title
- en_US Bat's Big Game
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Retold by Margaret Read MacDonald
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Nobati, Eugenia
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:55:15Z
- en_US 2008-08
- en_US 2008
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:55:15Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2008
- Abstract
- en_US This happens to be the six-thousandth book in the collection. There is a short statement on the verso of the title-page about the history of this story. It begins with Aesop and Motif B261.1 in Stith Thompson. The animals and birds are preparing for a soccer game. Bat sees them warming up and decides that the animals are stronger. He joins them. When the birds get a 2-1 lead in the match, Bat decides to join them. Soon the animals are winning 4-3. Bat switches sides again. Bear stops the game and invites the birds and the other animals to gather for a talk. All of them confront Bat and ask which side he is on. I just wanted to play on the winning side, Bat mumbles. The gathered animals all reject him. He gives back both shirts and leaves the field. That's the last time he'll play both sides at once! Good fun.
- Identifier
- en_US 9780807505878 (hardcover)
- en_US 6578 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Albert Whitman and Company
- en_US Morton Grove, IL
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.M16 Bat 2008 See all items with this value
- en_US One story See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books