Both a bedtime story and an accurate presentation of a barn owl's extraordinary hearing capacity, which she puts to use on the moonlit night the first of her nestlings hatches. This magnificent hymn to night, night sound, and birth, is by the award-winning creators of Is This a House for Hermit Crab?. Full-color illustrations.
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Both a bedtime story and an accurate presentation of a barn owl's extraordinary hearing capacity, which she puts to use on the moonlit night the first of her nestlings hatches. This magnificent hymn to night, night sound, and birth, is by the award-winning creators of Is This a House for Hermit Crab?. Full-color illustrations.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Illustrated by SCHINDLER, S.D. COLOR PICTURES. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 9.5 X 9.1 X 0.6 inches VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S14.95) DUST JACKET. small name plate ep "Jackie Crusha...93230"; White spine titles on black hard covers. GREY ENDPAPERS...Dust Jacket ALSO HAS brown & white owl ILUSTTRATION and Biography of Author & ilust.; Dramatic Glossy Color Ilust; 1 pages; . McDonald's poetic text is wonderfully full of words that evoke the senses--especially sounds: deftly mimicked voices (``Churrr, churrr, '' says the raccoon, while Father Owl cries, ``Kwa-kwa-hoooo. Hu, Hu, Hu'') and a wealth of other onomatopoeic words. Children will delight in chiming in, especially at the end when the sounds are reiterated, summarizing the owl's search but now understood as noises made by the hatching babies. Schindler's dark illustrations are outstanding. Almost drained of color, many of the double spreads are almost entirely black, with shapes barely suggested by delicate highlights.
