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PreS-Gr 3—Author/illustrator Brian Lies scores a baseball triple when he narrates his third book (Houghton Mifflin, 2010) featuring bats. This one is set at a thrilling evening ballgame. With rhyming verse and delightful puns, Lies creates a complete picture of what it would be like if bats played baseball—from the American flag being flown in for the National Anthem to vendors who hawk "moth dogs" and "Cricket Jack" to a grounds crew that marks baselines with powdered sugar and rakes with forks. His beauti...Log In or Sign Up to Read More