Little owl falls out of his nest. A squirrel tries to help him find his mommy. Absolutely precious illustrations, but simple enough that it doesn't scream in your face, "only toddlers will appreciate this!" The repetitive, sparse text and clear illustrations of this story make this a great book for ELLs. Part of the problem in this book is that owl doesn't give good descriptions of his mother so squirrel brings other animals with those same characteristics. This is a good book to introduce adjectives to beginning language learners to describe friends and family. I liked the cute story. Helpful squirrel, much more practical and helpful frog, vaguely uncautious mother. The colors of the illustrations are right out of the '70s. The cover is the color of vomit so very popular in that decade. I'm also not a huge fan of the digitally rendered illustrations. The illustrator manages to create characters with a lot of depth and personality but the crappy quality of the digital pictures is distracting from the story. Another medium would have been better, I think.
Oh, just adorable from the very first page! Love that little owl!
—DJHStreets
Sweet book about a baby owl who falls from the nest.
—aastalavista
Fun clever illustrations and cute language
—ilu
Evan's favorite.
—Bellarox
Very cute!
—corryjf
