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Owl babies

When three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, they can't help but wonder where she is. Stunning illustrations from unique and striking perspectives capture the owls as they worry about their mother: What is she doing? When will she be back? What scary things move all around th...

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Main Author: Waddell, Martin (Author)
Other Authors: Benson, Patrick (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1992.
Subjects:
Owls > Infancy > Juvenile fiction.
Owls > Juvenile fiction.
Mother and child > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
Summary: When three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, they can't help but wonder where she is. Stunning illustrations from unique and striking perspectives capture the owls as they worry about their mother: What is she doing? When will she be back? What scary things move all around them? Not surprisingly, a joyous flapping and dancing and bouncing greets her return, lending a celebratory tone to the ending of this comforting tale. Never has the plight of young ones who miss their mother been so simply told or so beautifully rendered.
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm
Audience: Grades: PreK-2.
500
ISBN: 9780763695194
076369519X
9781564021014
1564021017
9780758733573
0758733577
9780763617103
0763617105
9781406349573
1406349577
9780329274986
0329274988
9781404630086
1404630082
Author Notes: Martin Waddell was born April 10, 1941, in Belfast, Ireland. He always wanted to be a professional soccer player. After having played for junior teams in Ireland, he left school at fifteen and held a variety of jobs, including working at a publishing company and as a night switchboard operator for a taxi company.

Waddell is now one of the most prolific and successful contemporary children's writers, with more than one hundred books to his credit, some of them under his pseudonym Catherine Sefton.

He won the 1986 Other Award, for his book Starry Night, which was also a runner up for The Guardian Children¿s Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Young Observer Teenage Fiction Prize. He has twice won the Smarties Book Prize, for Farmer Duck and Can't You Sleep Little Bear? He also won the 1989 Kurt Mascher Award for The Park In The Dark, the 1990 Bets Book For Babies for Rosie¿s Babies and has been shortlisted for the 1992 Smarties Book Prize for Along The Lonely Road.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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