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Abraham Schroeder is an artist, designer, and writer, currently living in Petaluma, California with his family, after residing in a dozen other places, including Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Minnesota, Alaska, and Japan.

At Amherst College, he majored in Asian Studies and Fine Arts, and spent two years in Kyoto, Japan, studying, teaching, and translating, before attending the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

He worked for 7 years in the Asian Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, and during that time managed a massive 5-year project to catalog, digitize, and rehouse the MFA's s ...more

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Average rating: 4.16 · 111 ratings · 27 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Gentleman Bat by Abraham Schroeder (Goodreads Author), Piotr Parda (Illustrator) 4.15 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Too Many Tables by Abraham Schroeder (Goodreads Author), Micah Monkey (Illustrations) 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gentleman Bat by Abraham Schroeder (2014-10-01) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Too Many Tables by Abraham Schroeder (2015-04-28) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Gentleman Bat at Lubee Bat Conservancy!

For Read Across America Day/Dr. Seuss Day, 2017,
Lubee Bat Conservancy in Gainesville, FL, did an awesome, and super cute photo shoot of some of their bats reading The Gentleman Bat!

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Check out Lubee for more information about the important work they do to rescue and care for bats of all kinds.
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Published on March 20, 2017 16:22 • Tags: dr-seuss, drseussday, lubee-bat-conservancy, read-across-america, readacrossamericaday, the-gentleman-bat

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