Bill the Bat

Loves Halloween
Illustrated by
Written by Daryl K. Cobb Manuela Pentangelo

10 To 2 Children’s Books / Clinton

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To my family - CC, KC and JC - for their
Library of Congress Control Number 2007929835
continued support and inspiration.
ISBN 978-1-4243-4454-3

Written by Daryl K. Cobb

Illustrated by Manuela Pentangelo Daryl K. Cobb

To my family and friends who

support me every day, and to Daryl,
for believing in me.

Happy Halloween to everyone!

Printed in China
Manuela Pentangelo
10to2childrensbooks.com First Printing 2007
Bill the bat
loved Halloween.
It was the funniest thing
that he had ever seen.
The kids dressed up like
ghouls and ghosts.

The boy called Nixon

scared him the most.
Bill spent the night
just flying The kids would all scream
around. and scatter away.
“A bat, a bat!”
he heard them all say.

To get a good look,

he had to swoop down.
Someone started a rumor let me think, let me think,
some years ago, now how did it go ?
 In your hair he would nest
A bat could swoop down and his kids would live there.
and get caught in your hair.
It is the silliest story. or in a cave by the sea.

A bat would much rather be

asleep in someone’s attic
But whatever the reasons,
the kids liked to run.
At this time of year,
to Bill this was fun.
He set himself down
on the branch of a tree,
to rest for a second

and what did he see?

The ghouls and the ghosts
on the porch of the house
and tagging along was
his friend Mike the mouse.
 He leaped from the branch
The moon was full,
high into the air,
the stars were bright,
swooping down on the kids
the perfect setting
who then ran everywhere.
for a Halloween night.
 Bill was sent flying
With one swing of a broom, back into the night.
that caught him just right,
His vision was blurry
when he finally came to, and Halloween night

was over, done, through.

Al the Owl from his perch
was shaking his head.
“I think you should
take up the tango,” he said.
“It is a dangerous game
you are playing, my friend.
One day you may not
wake up at the end.”
Bill thought for a moment,
“You are right, this is true.
Maybe next year
I’ll just watch it with you.”
The End