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San Bruno Library Presents "Once Upon a Time" #5
"Bats"

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Storytime storytime.

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Hi welcome to San Bruno library presents once upon.

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A time the cable story, time of the San Bruno library, my name- is miss Barbara and I'm, going to be spending the next half hour. Reading you stories and we're going to do some songs together and have.

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A good time I am going to be reading.

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Stories about bats today.

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So let's get started and we'll start with our first song, which goes like this we're glad you're here today we're glad you're here today, hi ho the merry. Oh we're glad you're here today, good did I hear you singing along. Let's do.

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That again, together, okay.

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You ready we're glad you're here today, we're glad you're here today, hi ho the merry. Oh, we're glad you're here today. Alright, my first book I'm really excited about this. This is a brand-new book.

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We just got it in here at the library it's called the great ballgame and it's a Muskogee's story, a Native American story, retold by Joseph, brew, Chuck and illustrated by Susan L Roth. And if you can see all the animals are holding these rackets and those are.

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Lacrosse rackets, which is a really cool sport, okay,.

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And we'll find out how this has to do with bats very soon,.

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Long ago, the birds and animals had a great argument.

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We who have wings are better than you said the birds that.

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Is not so the animals replied we who have teeth are better.

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The two sides argued back and forth their coral went on and on until it seemed they would go to war because of it. The crane, the leader of the birds and the bear the leader of the animals, had an idea. Let us have a ballgame crane said the first side to score a goal will win the argument. This idea is good said: bear the side that loses will have to accept the penalty given by the other side, so they walked and flew to a field, and there they divided up.

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Into two teams.

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On one side went all those who had wings, they were the birds on the other side, went all those with teeth. They were the animals, but when the teams were formed, one creature was left out bat. He had wings and teeth.

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He flew back and forth between the two sides.

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First, he went to the animals I have teeth, I must be on your side.

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Bear shook his head, ah it would not be fair. He said you.

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Have wings you must be a bird.

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So bat food to the other side take me. He said to the bird for.

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You see, I have wings, but.

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The birds laughed at him. You are too little.

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To help us, we don't want you, they jeered.

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Then bat went went back to the animals. Please let me join your team, he begged them the birds.

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Laughed at me and would not accept me so.

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Bear took pity on the little bat you are not very big said bear, but sometimes even the small ones can help. We will accept you as an animal, but you must hold back and let the bigger animals play. First, two poles were set up as the goalposts at each end of the field. Then the game began.

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Each team played hard on the animal side, fox and deer were Swift runners and the bear cleared the way for them as they played crane and hawk, though, or even swifter, and they stole the ball each time before the animals could reach their goal soon. It became clear that the birds had an advantage whenever they got the ball, they would fly up into the air and the animals could not reach them. The animals guarded their goal well, but they grew tired as the Sun began to set just as the Sun sank below the horizon.

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Crane took the ball and flew toward the poles. Bear tried to stop him but stumbled in the dim light and fell. It seemed as if the birds would surely win.

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Suddenly, a small dark shape, flew onto the field and stole the ball from crane, just as he was about to reach the poles, it was bad. He darted from side to side across the field, for he did not need light to find his way. None of the birds could catch him or block him.

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Holding the ball. Bat flew right between the poles. At the other end, the animals had one.

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This is how bat came to be accepted as an animal he was allowed to set the penalty for the birds you birds, bats said: must leave this land for half of each year.

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So it is that the birds fly south each winter and every day at dusk, bat still comes flying to see if the animals need him to play ball and that's the story of the great ballgame.

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Okay, well, today, I have some funny stories.

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Stories about bats and.

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I have this fun book right here. It is called.

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Badi riddles.

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By katie hall and lisa eisenberg pictures by nicole ruble, I'm going to read a couple of these between the books. So let's read one right.

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What do you get if you cross a vampire and a big dance, a bat.

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Why did the vampire bats girlfriend break up with him? She thought he was a pain in the neck. Ok, Rena sisters here, it'll read some more in a minute. My next book is called bat loves the night by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Sarah fox-davies.

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That is waking up side down as usual hanging by her toenails, her beady eyes, open her pixie ears twitch. She shakes her thistledown fur. She unfurls her wings made of skin. So fine the finger bones inside show through and here's some facts about bats. The pipistrelle bats body is no bigger than your thumb. A bats wing is its arm and hand for extra long fingers support the skin of the wing.

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Bats toes are shaped like hooks, so it's no effort for a bat to hang upside down. Now she unhooks her toes and drops into black space with a sound like a tiny umbrella opening she flaps her wings. That.

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Is flying out out.

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Under the broken tile into the nighttime garden,.

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/ bushes, under trees, between fence posts through the tangled head she swoops untouched bat is at home in the darkness as a fish is in the water. She doesn't need to see she can hear where she is going bats can see, but in the dark good ears are more useful than eyes.

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Bat shout says she flies louder than a hammer blow higher than a squeak. She beams her voice around her like a flashlight and the echoes come singing back. They carry a sound picture of all. Her voice has touched listening, hard bat can hear every detail. The smallest twigs, the shape of leaves using sound to find your way like this is called echolocation. The noise bats make when they shout is too high for humans to hear gliding and fluttering back and forth. She shouts her torch of sound among the trees.

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Listening for her supper, all is still then a fat moth takes flight below her bat plunges fast as blinking and grabs it in her open mouth. But the moths Pearlie scales are moon dust slippery. It slithers from between her teeth, bat dives Nets it with a wingtip scoops it to her mouth.

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This time she bites hard, its wings fall away like wrapper from a candy. In a moment, the moth is eaten. Bat sneezes to the dusty scales got up her nose. A bat can eat dozens of big moths in a single night or thousands of tiny flies. Gnats and mosquitoes most species of bats eat insects, but there are some that eat fruit, fish frogs.

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Hunting time has run out, the dark will soon be gone in the East. The sky is getting light, it's passed, bats bedtime the place where bats sleep in the day is called a roost. It can be in a building a cave or a tree so long as it's dry and safe. She flies to the roof in the last shadows and swoops in under the broken roof tile.

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Inside there are squeakings 50 hungry battling, hang in a huddle hooked to a rafter by oversized feets bat lands and pushed in pushes in among them toes first upside down again baby bats can't fly sometimes mother bats carry their babies when they go out, but mostly the babies stay behind in the roost and crowd together to keep warm bat knows her baby's voice and calls to it.

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The velvet scrap battling climbs aboard and clings to bats fur by its coat hanger feet, wrapped in her leather wings, the baby, suckles bats, milk, baby bats drink their mother's milk. Until they learn to fly at a few weeks old, then they can leave the roost at night to find their own food outside the birds are singing the flowers turn their faces to the Sun, but inside the rupaul, the darkness days, bat dozes with her battling waiting bats are nocturnal.

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That means they rest by day and come out at night to search for food when the tide of knight rises again, that will wake and plunge into the blackness. Shouting bat loves the night and.

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That's our story: bat loves the night.

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Okay I have a little song, a little bat song for us to do together. So I'll.

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Say it first and then we can sing it together and.

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It repeats itself, so you can do it along with me. It starts like this. Bats are sleeping. Bats are sleeping upside down upside down sleeping in the morning sun waiting for the night to come then they'll fly around then they'll fly around. Ok, let's do this together. Bats are sleeping. Bats are sleeping upside down upside down sleeping in the morning sun waiting for the night to come then they'll fly around then they'll fly around. Let's do that together. I bet, you've heard that tune before haven't you. Ok, bats are sleeping.

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Bats are sleeping upside down upside down sleeping in the morning sun waiting for the night to come then they'll fly around then they'll fly around very good. I heard you singing. That was a great ok! Oh, let's not forget the bat riddles all right.

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Did the little bat say when she was asked to dinner? No.

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Fangs I just ate.

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Why did the little bat walk around in his pajamas? He didn't have a bat robe. Why did the little bat use mouthwash? She had bat breath.

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Is a book of fact that's called nonfiction about bats. It's called squeaking bats by Ruth Berman.

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And it has pictures.

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Are real bats in it folds of skin on a bats, face help the bat make squeaking sounds try using different faces to help you make different sounds. Can.

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You make different sounds when you make a different face like if you go Oh.

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Birds, no, they are mammals called very good called bats. Bats are the only mammals that fly like all mammals. Bats have hair, like all mammals, baby bat can drink milk from their mothers. Why.

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Are all these bats upside down?

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Bats, hang upside down.

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To rest, these bats are resting on a roost. A roost can be a tree, a cave or in this case an attic. A bat strong, toes have sharp claws. These strong toes can hold on to a roost all day, long bats rest during the day they are nocturnal nocturnal animals are awake at night.

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These bats leave their roots every night to hunt for insects to find insects, bats use echolocation first, a bat makes high squeaking sounds the squeaking sounds bounce off an insect. These sounds come back to the bat as echoes the echoes. Tell the bat where the insect is. How would you make.

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An echo have you ever made an echo like, maybe when you're standing on a cliff or in a gymnasium at some time? What you do is you make a loud noise and then you list for the echo.

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Of your voice to come back to you, some bats squeak through their noses, just like you, bats need to drink water, some bats. Also, drink nectar from flowers, nectar is sweet, bats, carry, yellow pollen from flower to flower, pollen helps flowers, make seeds, Oh watch out, some snakes eat bats.

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Look closely at the wings of this bat. Each wing is made of an arm and a hand. A thin skin joins the arm and four fingers. The thumb sticks out alone, just like that.

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Baby bats are called pups. Some pups live in safe places called nurseries. This mother is searching for her pup. How.

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Will she ever find it a.

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Mother bat knows a sound and smell of her own pup. Look she's found it. Some pups ride on their mothers backs. Does.

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Anyone give you piggyback rides.

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Squeaking bats, eat insects, bats also help flowers grow, bats, do jobs that helped our.

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And that's a few facts about squeaking bats: okay, let's read one more joke and then we'll go on a break. Oh, when do bats squeak when they need to be oiled, squeak, squeak, squeak, here's the suntan oil.

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All right now we're gonna take a little break.

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Don't go away we'll be back with more bat stories in a couple minutes. You.

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Personal foul inactive activities on a glorious day- huh let's get out there and play.

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Free when do I get to be oh, hey, Reggie frozen people can't talk our a day. I mean there are lots of great player ideas online, but don't stay too long.

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The park just yesterday a movie last week, maybe it's time to expand your universe at the Chabot space and Science Center, it's a place where you and your kids can explore the universe through interactive exhibits, larger-than-life shows and inspiring views through huge telescopes think beyond the same old spots and bring your kids to a place. They'll remember long past the weekend.

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Welcome back all right, let's get started with our story time again: I have another joke for you. You ready what famous flying mammal lived in ancient Egypt, Cleopatra.

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Why did junior bat want to get a job? He.

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Was tired of just hanging around.

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Why did the baseball player strikeout he.

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Was using the wrong bat.

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What did the little bad do in school when she didn't.

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Know the answer she just winged it. Why did mom bat hate the letter R because it turned her baby bat into.

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A brat: ok, let's do a rhyme together. Can you get your five fingers up? Cuz we're gonna have five little bats. Ok, you ready. Five little bats came flying in the door, one flew away, and then there were four four little bats hiding in a tree, one flew away and that left 33 little bats. Looking down at you, one flew away, and then there were 22 little bats, hiding from the Sun one flew away, and then there was one one little back hanging, all alone: it flew away, and then there were none.

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Let's do that one more time. Okay, you got your bats, ready, 55 little bats came flying in the door, one flew away, and then there were good for forward little bats, hiding in a tree, one flew away, and then there were 33 bats. Looking down at you, one flew away, and then there were two two little bags hiding from the Sun one flew away, and then there was one one, little bat hanging all alone: it flew away, and then there were none very good. Okay, I have a fun story that I want to read.

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It's called the bat Jamboree by.

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Kathy, a pelt with pitchers by melissa, sweet.

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This is a number book.

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To the bat Jamboree was held early.

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This year, at the old drive-in movie, not too far from here.

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Bats, who had practiced all spring for this grandest of shows on the old silver screen. The program was better than ever before. It was standing room, only no more seats on the floor. The crowd settled in as the house lights went down, the spotlight came up there.

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Wasn't a sound then.

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One bat sang two bats: flapped 3, batt cha-cha-cha for bats, tapped.

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5 batt dough from the top of the screen, reeling and whirling wing tip to wing 6 bats formed a band, oh, how they jived their instruments wailed in three-quarter time, 7, bats, balanced, seven balls on their noses. Eight bats doubled up and danced cotton, I, choses, nine bats war, tuxedos and sang in a chorus each thought to himself how they adore 'it's at the time came at last for the grand finale, the acrobats. Yes, there were 10 bats and all they strutted in front of the six-story screen and a dazzling display of bats wings.

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Cartwheels pat flip swing springs. They did, but the greatest of.

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The great bat pyramid it all started, you see with the acrobats ten all lined up in a row and then yes and then nine bats, fluttered, eight bats, clue 7 bats balanced as the pyramid grew six bats dived on up that wild flying stair, well, five bats dove down right out of thin.

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Air for bats, tapped.

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And up three bats: cha-cha-cha Fandango and twisted when two bats flapped up the crowd became quiet. They never seen anything quite like it now 54 bats in that wonderful band, all waited in silence for the one bat to land.

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No one moved a muscle as she flew to the peak, not even a whisper, not even a squeak, and it seemed like forever the tension. It grew to the top of the pyramid. The bat.

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Once up on top in a voice, all aquiver, the single bat sang making all the bats shiver, the whole crowd went crazy. They, who did they howled as all 55 bats, took a deep bow and it was over. The spotlight was dimmed, the house lights came up, the curtains were trimmed but come again next year and the one after that, for the bat.

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Jamboree starring 55 bats, the.

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Spotlight will shine on that six-story screen and the show.

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Won't be over till the fat lady sing, okay, that.

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Is the bat Jamboree.

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Let's read a couple more riddles here: what fruit.

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Do vampires like best nectarines, we.

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Are you most likely to find bats in your house in the back room.

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What do you get if you cross a ball with.

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What bat invaded Europe back Atilla the Hun.

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Where do bats go to gamble? Bat lantic.

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City, which bat hangs the highest, the Acrobat.

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Very good all right, so that brings us just about to the end of our story time how about if we sing our back song one more time and then we'll sing. Our closing song. Okay, bats are sleeping. Bats are sleeping upside down upside down sleeping in the morning sun waiting for the night to come then they'll fly around. Then they'll fly around great okay.

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Well, it's been so fun spending this time with you today, I hope, you'll come to the library and check out some back books and some other books. Let us know what you're looking for and we can help you find it. We.

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Have story times at the library, if you can.

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Come to those- and we have programs to you- can find out about those when you come in, so we're looking forward to seeing you bring your mom or dad and you can even get a library card. Alright, let's sing our last song. Well, it's time to say goodbye to our friends. Well, it's time to say goodbye to our friends. Well, it's time to say goodbye, give a smile and wave goodbye. Well, it's time to say goodbye to our friends.

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See you next time.

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