BookOwl Picks: Books About Owls
It is time...for BookOwl to recommend books about owls! (Books and owls: always a winning combination!) Here are my reading recommendations, both fiction and nonfiction, featuring this fascinating bird of prey. Wesley the Owl by Stacy O'Brien Wesley the Owl is a humorous and poignant story of Caltech biologist Stacey O'Brien taking in a baby barn owl with nerve damage in one wing. Thus begins a two-decade chronicle of Stacey raising the barn owl chick, Wesley, from baby to full-grown adult. It offers not only a moving personal journey from the caretaker's perspective, but an interesting look into barn owl development and the complications of taking on the responsibility of raising an owl that can't survive in the wild. Wesley has his own unique personality, and it was a treat as the reader to get to know this owl and follow his story from beginning to end. I'll admit, this one you need to read with a box of tissues. Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght ...