![]() ![]() Father and child, braving the night searching for the magnificent Great Horned Owl. ![]() This haunting quality seems apt, given the subject matter. One review describes the book as haunting (defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as ‘having qualities (such as sadness or beauty) that linger in the memory: not easily forgotten’), which is certainly my experience of it. I’ve often thought of it but only recently bought myself a copy. ![]() That first encounter with Owl Moon has stuck with me. But this picture book – telling the simple story of a child’s first owling trip with their father – transported me somewhere altogether more appealing: a shadowy forest, blanketed in snow, I discovered (and first read) it in the children’s library at the University of Roehampton while waiting, with a considerable amount of trepidation, to be interviewed for a teacher training course in the early ’90s. I thought I’d continue last week’s theme (night walking) and share the magical Owl Moon by Jane Yolen (illustrated by John Schoenherr) with you. ![]()
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