White Owl Barn Owl

White Owl Barn Owl

“For more than ten years I lived on a small holding in Devon. I could watch deer from my bedroom window and listen to the swallows talking in their nest over the front porch.

Behind my house a lovely series of meadows, full of flowers and insects, stretched up the hill to a ruined barn, where barn owls nested. I could walk up the hill at Summer dusk and watch the owls floating over the grass and quartering the hedgerows. The memories of all those warm twilights and of the owls, drifting pale over the fields have all gone into making this book.”

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This is the story of a little girl who has never seen a barn owl until she helps her grandfather put up a barn owl nest box. After months of patient waiting, on one Summer night, she gets so close to a barn owl, that she could almost touch it. Readers will share her experience — will look with her into the barn owl’s face ‘like a pearly heart’ and watch as it raises it wings and flies away so quietly you can hear your own heart beating.

Michael Foreman’s illustrations capture the enchantment and romance of this magical white bird in the blue, blue night. Perfect bedtime reading!

White Owl, Barn Owl

by Nicola Davies

illustrated by Michael Foreman

published by Walker Books

Reviews

‘A charming story and a must for budding birders!’ — Children’s Books‘

… a big hit, blending a sweet story with facts about the graceful, white birds …’ — Norwich Evening News

‘I was in love with this book before I reached the bottom of the first page!’ — The Bookseller

‘… the relationship between a little girl and her grandfather is touchingly portrayed …’ — The Book Magazine

‘A charming story …’ — Verbal Magazine

From White Owl Barn Owl

One frosty winter day, I helped my Grandpa make a big wooden box.
“What’s it for, Grandpa?”
“It’s for barn owls to nest in”, he said.
“What barn owls?”, I asked. But Grandpa just smiled. “Wait and see”, he said.