The author of Bats at the Beach and Bats at the Library brings his friendly, fuzzy bats to a baseball game.  But this isn’t a human baseball game.  This is a bat baseball game.  At the beginning of the story, the bats arrive at a piece of grass under a striped canopy on the edges of a carnival.  Some play the game, while others watch, hanging upside down from the tent.  The story is told in rhyme, following the drama of the sport.  Lies includes traditional human baseball trappings, such as popcorn, a tiny microphone, and uniforms, and integrates them with things befitting the bats small stature (i.e. the foul lines are sprinkled using powdered sugar).  There are one or two awkward turns of phrase (i.e. “We feel ejected from the game!”), but overall, the rhyme is solid and the competitive drama is involving.  Readers view the sport through the perspective of a grandfather/grandson pair, which brings a measure of nostalgia to the story.  All in all, this is a fun bat adventure.