| Owly | 
 enlarge | Author: Mike Thaler
Creator: David Wiesner
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 128231
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8 x 7 x 0.2
ISBN: 0802775454
EAN: 9780802775450
ASIN: 0802775454
Publication Date: March 1, 1998
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Best chilren's book August 6, 2007
This book was one of my children's favorite books to be read to. They learned the same valuable lessons "Owly" did. After they learned them both my kids and I used the most valuable lesson in the book and applied this to our daily lives. So we all knew the answer to "How much do you love me?" And most every time we all would give the exact answer that Owly got. We used this communication until the boys moved out of the house. These memories I'll cherish forever.
beautiful story March 16, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is my childhood, It's an amazing beautiful story, that I still quote when telling someone how much I love them.
 Endearing, Inquisitive 2 Yr Old..But This One's No Caldecott November 26, 2002
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
Owly is two years old and he wants to know how high, how deep, how far, how much about EVERYTHING! His mother patiently helps him to discover the answers to his numerous questions by seeking the facts himself. He goes off to count exactly how many waves there are in the ocean and finds there are so many he can't count them all. Similar experiments yield similar fruit. The endearing story eventually reaffirms his mother's deep love for him as well. I think this book's message is very sweet and comforting and I think this is a good story. However, I'm not as excited about the illustrations. David Wiesner is one of my very favorite illustrators of children's literature and well deserving of the Caldecott Award he recieved for his book called Tuesday. The pictures in this book while sweet are very much on the dull side. Look at the cover picture and that is essentally all you will see for the rest of the book's 16 illustrations. All of the illustrations are very, very similar. We see baby Owly and his mother (cute brown owls) sitting on a black tree branch with a round white moon and round white stars, or yellowish streaks indicating sunrise, or pale greenish blue indicating daylight. We see Owly take flight in two pictures. We see him sitting on the shore in one. We see the two owls cuddling. The colors are all pale washes in the yellow-blue range. Wiesner has given the two owls cute expressions. I would never say that this fine artist has created bad illustrations. Never! But these are dull and take the book from the realm of 5 stars to that of 3. You will never find that this book creates anything but positive memories...but that is only IF it creates a memory at all.
GREAT BOOK August 8, 2002
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
MY BOYS ARE NOW 19 AND 15 AND I USED TO READ THEM THIS BOOK WHEN THEY WERE SMALL. ONE IS NOW IN AWAY IN COLLEGE, THE OTHER IS, WELL, 15. BUT WHENEVER WE SAY GOODNIGHT OR SO LONG WE WOULD SAY I LOVE YOU-----AS MANY STARS AS THERE ARE IN THE SKY, ETC. I AM NOW PREPARING FOR ANOTHER BABY AND I WANT TO SHARE THE SAME JOY THAT WE GET NOW. IT IS AN EXCELLENT BOOKS. HOLD ON TO THESE STORIES AND TREASURE YOUR CHILDREN. ENJOY, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK.
A beautiful work of art. November 10, 1999
4 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a great book. I would recomend it to anyone young or old
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