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Article: SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE GOES BATTY FOR PUPPETS WITH TALE OF `STELLALUNA'.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 17, 1997
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Admittedly, it's hard to think about cuddling up with a bat.
Those rats with wings snooze during the day and play at night. They sleep upside down. They hang by their toes.
Bugs are their favorite food - 600 mosquitoes an hour some of them eat. And their skin is creepy to the touch. Not something you'd pick as your best friend in life, the way you would a dog or a cat.
But think for a moment from the bat's point of view.
That's what the Seattle Children's Theatre is asking its audiences to imagine. ``Stellaluna'' is the stage translation of Janell Cannon's popular children's book by the same name. It's the story of a baby fruit bat who ...