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| Owl Babies | 
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| Author: Martin Waddell
Creator: Patrick Benson
Publisher: Candlewick
Category: Book
List Price: $5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 13627
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.2 x 0.1
ISBN: 0763617105
UPC: 732483007107
EAN: 9780763617103
ASIN: 0763617105
Publication Date: April 1, 2002
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Product Description
A tender tale to remind the youngest of children that Mommy always comes back.
"I want my mommy!" Three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, and they can’t help but wonder where she is. What is she doing? When will she be back? What scary things move all around them? Stunning illustrations from striking perspectives capture the anxious little owls as they worry. Not surprisingly, joyous flapping and dancing and bouncing greet the mother’s 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 52 more reviews...
 Owl Babies for my babies November 19, 2008
I picked this book up at our local library on impulse. I didn't think it'd be a huge hit with my youngest (2 years old), but thought my early readers might enjoy it. Turns out I was half right. My 2, 4 and 7 year olds all love this book! My 10 year old volunteers to read it to them daily. After having a library copy for only a few days I realized this one needed to be added to our personal collection. The illustrations are beautiful, the repetition is great and the moral of the story is lovely.
 A Teacher's Perspective September 9, 2008
This piece of Modern Fantasy features a small owl family. The mother owl leaves and the three owl babies are left to worry and wonder where she's gone and when she'll return. In the end, the owl mother returns to her three concerned children and reassures them.
The first time I heard this story was at Texas Tech University in my Children's Lit course. Dr. Button was a skilled reader and acted out the scenes of this book, making us all fall in love with the story.
Bill, the youngest owl baby, has a repetive part in the story and I would ask children to read that line on each page. I would also incorporate this book in a Fall, noctournal animals unit.
 For some reason, it falls flat for us June 24, 2008
It's a good little book - mom is gone, the kids worry, mom comes back and everybody is happy.
But I really can't get the kids to show very much interest in it, and I don't often choose it to read either.
all moms love this book :-) June 1, 2008
This is just the sweetest book.... Any mom (or dad) would think this one of the best books around. The illustrations are beautiful. Just the right amount of tension for a little one - mommy goes away for a while - and then mommy comes back with food. We got this as a gift because we remembered it so fondly from when we read it to our son. It's a bit more "obscure" than "Goodnight Moon" so we figured no one else would think of it.
An enchanting tale February 9, 2008
Owl Babies is an enchanting book which my six year old Daughter first discovered when we borrowed it from our local library. It conveys perfectly, the fact that it is normal to worry about things, but that everything usually works out in the end - if you just have hope!
I was unable to obtain this book in the UK as it is now out of publication, however I was delighted when I discovered that it could be bought from the US. The only difference in the UK & US version is the use of 'Mummy' in our version & 'Mommy' in the US version - this of course does absolutely nothing to spoil our enjoyment of this excellent book.
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