Owl Babies by Martin Waddell (board book)

Owl Babies by Martin Waddell (board book)A special 25th anniversary edition of a modern classic, Owl Babies reassures young children that Mummy will always come home. Sarah, Percy and Bill the baby owls wake one night to find their mother gone. And as the darkness gathers and they perch patiently on their branch waiting for her return, oh how they worry! Never has the plight of young ones who miss their mum been so sensitively told or so beautifully rendered as in this tale from picture book

'The best young novelist - indeed one of the best novelists - I've read in years

dream and fly

and return it

he shows that while everything has changed

Soon enough

a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning

It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest

Where can we live if not in each other's shadow

to be a good girl and get married and settle down

a drug that does everything from increasing a person's life-span to making intersteller travel possible

It is Zeus

In this first volume of the full-colour illustrated adaptation of his groundbreaking book