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Owl moon book6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() It was just one of many that made me enjoy the glory of a picture book. I’m very thankful for my brand-spanking-new-no-ripping-Mylar copy, and very thankful for that one a long time ago. This book is a beautiful combination of words and pictures, and certainly worth revisiting. The colors are in the duo, the shadows, and the landscape, and the regal owl, and bright white leaves room for the text. John Schoenherr represents Jane Yolen’s words exceptionally well in the white sky and white snow. It’s late, late at night, and the colors are made up of shadowy tones. I love color in this book because it is simultaneously lush and stark. ![]() (Grown-up eyes that are wrinkly and saggy, but whatever.) It takes you along as a father leads his child for a walk in the woods to hopefully find a great horned owl. ![]() How fun to revisit childhood moments with some grown-up eyes. I read it as a child in the late 80's and purchased it to pass along the story to my 7 year old boys. While I so vividly remember the cover, the Caldecott Medal, and that ripped Mylar, the story was entirely unfamiliar to me when I read it again recently. It was wrapped in ripped Mylar and had smudged pages, and I can imagine it accompanied many bedtime rituals around the neighborhood. I remember this book from the Ridge Elementary School library. It was late one winter night, long past my bedtime, I think it’s well documented in these parts that rowdy read alouds steal my heart the most when it comes to picture books, but this one… Jane Yolen has rare rivals when it comes to a mastery of language and creating rich imagery with words. ![]()
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