Whoo-Ku Haiku: A Great Horned Owl Story

by Maria Gianferrari (Author) Jonathan Voss (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

Stunning illustrations and gorgeous haikus lead young readers through the dramatic life cycle of one of America's most beloved wild animals. Pip. Pip. Pip. Poking

A hole. Cracking. Cracking. Out

Pecks the white owlet.

Watch as a pair of great horned owlets peep and squeak in their feathered nest. Mama and Papa hunt for food and fend off predators while the chicks grow strong enough to hop and flap between the branches of their tree, then leap and fly away, ready to explore the wild world around them. In this thrilling nonfiction picture book, a combination of haiku and dazzling illustration shows readers the fierce majesty of one of North America's most ubiquitous wild animals.

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Review quotes

Gianferrari tells this avian story wholly in haiku, introducing children to an easy-to-grasp poetic form, against the appropriately moody naturalistic wash of Voss's stunning picture, in sepia ink and watercolor. —The New York Times Book Review

Maria Gianferrari

Maria Gianferrari lives in northern Virginia with her scientist husband, artist daughter, and rescue pets, Becca the dog and Lucia the rat. She has written several books for Roaring Brook Press, including Bobcat Prowling, Hawk Rising, and Hello Goodbye Dog.

Maris Wicks is a writer and illustrator of science comics, as well as a self-proclaimed gigantic nerd. She has written, drawn, and colored comics for First Second Books, New England Aquarium and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as well as Spongebob Comics, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics.

Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780399548420
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Publication date
March 03, 2020
Series
-
BISAC categories
NAT004000 - Nature | Birdwatching Guides
Library of Congress categories
Children's poetry
Poetry
Owls
Haiku
Great horned owl

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