Pinkwater on "Bats at the Beach"

Daniel Pinkwater has a new children's book pick over at NPR. The latest one, "a whiz-bang summer book" that he talked about last Saturday, is Bats at the Beach, by Brian Lies.

In our stack of recent favorites is Pinkwater's November selection, The Bake Shop Ghost, written by Jacqueline Ogburn and illustrated by Marjorie A. Priceman. The picture book concerns a humorous battle of wills between the new and old owners of a town's most popular bakery.