The Bat Poet is a children’s story with illustrations. It tells the story of a little bat who, instead of sleeping like the other bats in the barn, decides to venture out in the open once the sun comes up, despite being told:
"When you wake up in the daytime the light hurts your eyes—the thing to do is to close them and go right back to sleep."
This brave act of creativity and non-conformity leads him to meet a mockingbird who teaches him about poetry. The mockingbird becomes his mentor as he hones his poetry writing. Once he is happy with the poem he has written he goes back to his friends in the barn.
The story is about the importance of valuing and staying true to one’s own individuality. The Bat Poet’s individuality allowed him to further his creativity.
The Bat Poet is the story of brilliant bat who is also a poet. The bat shows individualism and creativity when he chooses to stay on the porch rather than head to the barn like his fellow bat friends. He misses the others but sticks to his own path. He finds great freedom in making his own decisions and begins to feel curious. Having never seen daylight, the bat stays awake during the day. This is the start of his lyrical career. He hears a bird singing and tries to mimic it. He doesn’t like the way he sounds but he enjoys the words that go into song. Here he begins to write poetry. The bird helps him workshop his poems to perfection. He provides insight on iambic pentameter and iambic trimeter. Content with his creation, the bat returns to his friends. Creativity is at the heart of the bat’s quest. He needed individuality and inspiration to reach his creative potential. Seeing daylight and meeting the bird brought out a skill set in him he didn’t know he had.
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