Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat" is a poem recited by the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". It is a parody of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." [Martin Gardner. "The Annotated Alice."]
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:Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!:How I wonder what you're at!:Up above the world you fly,:Like a teatray in the sky.:Twinkle, twinkle little bat!:How I wonder what you're at!
Context
The Mad Hatter is interrupted in his recitation. "The Bat" was the nickname of Professor Bartholomew Price, one of the Dons at Oxford, a former teacher of Carroll's and well known to Alice Liddell's family.
Other appearances
The poem was sung in Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" film. In it, the Dormouse sang it.
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