![]() ![]() Naturally, Owl Moon is highly recommended for owl-fans of any age. They turn, hand-in-hand, and start to make their way back to the warmth of home with its one light on in the window. Then the owl pumps its wings and flies silently away, and the father and child are left alone. On a branch."For one minute," the child breathlessly recalls, "three minutes, maybe even a hundred minutes, we stared at one another." ![]() The focus of this lesson is to dig deep on the authors craft - specifically her use of figurative language. A large shadow detaches itself from the forest and glides closer: Owl Moon ' by Jane Yolen is a gorgeous example of writing using figurative language and heartwarming example of memoir. ![]() Here the father calls again, and this time his call is answered from deep in the woods. ![]() Once the lonely sound of a distant train whistle (and the dog-calls that respond to it) have stopped, everything is "quiet as a dream," and the two make their way to the forest, with the father stopping every so often to make owl-calls into the black. It's the story - told in Schoenherr's gorgeous watercolors and Yolen's spare, beautiful prose-poetry - of a father and child who go out "owling" late, late one cold winter night. Imagine that the little girl snuggled into bed after her wintry walk in the woods. Our book today is the 1987 children's classic Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr. In Owl Moon the story is written from a young girls point of view. ![]()
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