BAT and the Waiting Game

Reviewed by: Phyllis Fuchs - Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: June 11, 2018

Review

The book is a second story about Bat, the first being A Boy Named Bat which was described in part as a non prescriptive glimpse of a boy on the autism spectrum. Like the first book, Bat and the Waiting Game is a second, warm and realistic family story about Bat, his older middle grade school sister, his parents who are separated, and his pet baby skunk. The book's twenty four titled and brief chapters in just under two hundred pages make it an easy-to-read story additionally helped by frequent pen and ink illustrations and generous-sized type. This sequel offers again a non prescriptive look at an endearing young boy in a funny, genuine- feeling family story. Recommended especially to boys and girls of about six to nine years old.

Overall Book Score: very good