“Whoo-whoo-who-who-who-whoooooooo….
Whoo-whoo-who-who-who-whooooooo.” That’s the sound of a Great Horned Owl. It’s
the call a little girl’s father makes as she accompanies him on a silent,
shadowy, forested moonlit night as they seek to hear an owl return the call.
It’s cold, and a little bit scary. But: “When you go owling you have to be
brave.” What a beautiful book. In Owl
Moon, author Jane Yolen draws on her own experience of owling with her family,
and John Schoenherr, who received the Caldecott Medal in 1988 for this book,
recalls features of his own family farm in his outstanding watercolor
illustrations. This is a book about the inimitable companionship of a parent
and child, about the hope that accompanies a journey, about the courage needed
in darkness, about the near-magic of the natural landscape and a reverence for
its creatures. It is also superb for reading aloud. "Whoo-whoo-who-who-who-whoooooooo." Ages 3-8.
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