<P>There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days-he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats, who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. <I>The Bat-Poet</I> is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way.</P><P>Here in <I>The Bat-Poet </I>are the bat's own poems and the bat's own world: the owl who almost eats him; the mockingbird whose irritable genius almost overpowers him; the chipmunk who loves his poems, and the bats who can't make beads or tails of them; the cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, and sparrows who fly in and out of Randall Jarrell's funny, lovable, truthful fable.</P> <awards> Best Illustrated Children's Books 1964 (NYT)<br>Year's Best Juveniles 1964 (NYT)</awards>