"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".[1]
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The Dormouse 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.[citation needed]
The poem was sung in Disney's Alice in Wonderland film. In it, the Dormouse sang it at the tea party. The poem was later sang again at Alice's trial, and taken down as "important" evidence.
The poem was sung in the 1999 film by the Hatter (Martin Short) as a sort of "encore" to his singing performances.
The poem is also used in the Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween special entitled "Madness". It is read aloud by the Mad Hatter, one of the villains in the series. It can be found in the Haunted Knight Collection written by Jeph Loeb and illustrated by Tim Sale. Mad March (The March Hare) also sings the first two lines in the mini-series Alice.
In the 1995 film Batman Forever, the character Riddler tells Batman, "twinkle twinkle little bat / how I wonder where you're at."
In Tim Burton's 2010 film version of Alice in Wonderland,the Mad Hatter leads the March Hare and Dormouse in the recitation of this poem in an attempt to distract Stayne from discovering Alice.
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