A father and daughter venture through a wintery night discovering life. They learn many things about the silences of the night. They finally find the owl that breaks the nights silence and the bonding experienced between the two will last a lifetime.

Owl Moon is a book for any parent who has ever shared a moment of quiet understanding with their child. A moment where you both hold each other in respect and love, where the struggle of living passes and you are both in awe of the world and eachother. I almost cried while reading this in the library. It describes an experience that I crave, but get so rarely from parenting. To share the amazing and hidden wonders of the world with my son. It is what I crave in creating art for children - to uncover something magical and at the same time real about this beautiful world.
Owl Moon is also for any child who has waited to be big enough to do something, or who is still waiting.
This is a beautifully paced story taking us slowly through the magic of a cold winter night, "quiet as a dream." The full moon lights the way for a father and child. The story is told in the first person and the child is so bundled in the illustrations that he or she remains ungendered, which is something that I appreciate (although the book summary and the LC subject headings proclaim it is a girl). The book is also really beautiful to look at. The delicate pen line drawings with water color washes are light and barren like the winterlandscape. The pages are designed beautifully by Schoenerr, using lots of white space. The text is also very well designed, layed out in short poem-like lines, which fit the stark illustraitons and mood of the story, though the text is straight prose. The illustrations also vary perspective and zoom to keep the repeating scene of child and adult walking through the night woods engaging.
Absoultely beautiful. I highly recommend this one. No surprise that it won the Caldacott.

I like this book because it is about a father and a daughter taking an adventure through the woods going owling. Students would like this because they could feel as if they are going on an adventure too. I like the winter season as well because it is not snowy that much in Alabama so it would be a new experience.

This is a book about a father taking his daughter out owling. Owling is where you go out into the woods and search for owls by using a certain call. When they first stopped to find an owl they had no luck. However when they tried a second time an owl replied to her fathers sound. This showed by never giving up on hope they were able to find an owl.

This book reminds me of traditions that are done in a family. I really liked the water paint effect on the pictures. This book reminds me how every family is different and has different traditions.

After reading this book I could have kids in the classroom draw three pictures, each of a differnt animal, and then to the side write what sound that animal makes. I can also have them write a small paragraph of a family tradition and share it with the class.

A child and father walk out into the woods under a full moon to go "owling." The child senses the quiet, bravery, and patience are required, and a sense of quiet permeates the story. An owl appears, in response to the father's call, and then the tension relaxes.