Owl Love You: A Picture Book

by Matthew Heroux, Wednesday Kirwan

Overview

Matthew Heroux andWednesday Kirwan’s picture bookOwl Love You is a wondrous read-aloud book about how owls spend their waking hours at night.

The sun is setting, time to rise! At dusk, when an owl’s day is just beginning, a baby owl asks questions and a mama owl offers comforting answers in this gentle, reverse bedtime book, featuring lulling, lyrical text and luminous illustrations of the nighttime world.

“Heroux’s simple rhymes are a good bet for beginning readers . . . Kirwan’s painterly illustrations capture a lovely middle-of-the-night feeling with a deep, dark palette.” —Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781944903350
Publisher:	Abrams Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	10/09/2018
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Matthew Heroux and Wednesday Kirwan wrote Owl Love You together while walking their dog, Nemo. Wednesday is a children’s book author and the illustrator of Henry’s Bright Idea and Magnolia’s Magnificent Map, in the Walnut Animal Society series, written by Lauren Bradshaw. Owl Love You is Heroux’s first book and their first book together as a married couple. They live in Oakland, California.

Editorial Reviews

"Heroux's simple rhymes are a good bet for beginning readers . . . Kirwan's painterly illustrations capture a lovely middle-of-the-night feeling with a deep, dark palette."​—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2018-07-24

Under Mama Owl's guidance, Baby Owl learns all the secrets and joys of the night.

As the sun sets, Mama nudges her baby awake: "No more sleeping, little one! Wake up!" She takes the lead, flying out of a hole in the barn's roof and into the night, with the baby owl tottering unsteadily behind. Rhyming text follows a Q-and-A format, with Baby Owl's questions—"Hoo'll catch me if I flutter and fall?"—followed by Mama's responses: "Owl catch you, my dear, tail feathers and all." Moths dance around the barn's floodlight. Mama's hooting serenade blends with the wolves' howls. Wee hedgehogs play hide-and-seek and peekaboo in the leaves of the tree, foxes frolic (chasing mice and moths), and bats hang upside down from the branches. Baby Owl just has to try this. As they fly, mother and baby observe rabbits racing through the dark fields, a bear scratching its back against a tree, and a group of fireflies dancing and twirling through the night. Safely back home on a straw bed under the barn roof, Mama declares, "Owl always love you!" Heroux's simple rhymes are a good bet for beginning readers, though the repeated pun—"Owl" for "I'll"—becomes a bit twee. Kirwan's painterly illustrations capture a lovely middle-of-the-night feeling with a deep, dark palette.

Sweet if not essential. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews