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A Bit Lost
Little Owl must be more careful when he is sleeping - uh-oh! He has fallen from his nest, & with a bump he lands on the ground. Where is his mummy? With the earnest assistance of his new friend Squirrel, Little Owl sets off in search of her, & meets a sequence of other animals.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published August 10, 2010
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Chris Haughton
21 books292 followersChris Haughton is an Irish illustrator and author living in London. He was listed in Time magazine's 'DESIGN 100' for the work he has been doing for fair trade clothing company People Tree. His debut book 'A Bit Lost' was first published in English in September 2010. It has been translated into 15 languages and won 9 awards in 7 countries including the Dutch Picturebook of the Year.
'Oh No George' came out in March 2012 and has been nominated for 6 awards in 4 countries including the Roald Dahl Funny award.
'Oh No George' came out in March 2012 and has been nominated for 6 awards in 4 countries including the Roald Dahl Funny award.
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June 7, 2018
Little Owl Lost is a cute children's story about a young owl who's fallen from its nest atop a tall, tall tree. Once Little Owl realizes what's happened, he wonders where his mother is. Luckily, kind squirrel is there to help. Squirrel assists Little Owl by listening to the descriptions of his mother and then attempting to locate her. Will Little Owl find his mommy after all?
We all enjoyed the book so much. It's bright and colorful and the story is so funny and just plain silly at times. It's super simple for young readers with no more than a sentence or so per page. This is a favorite this year.
5*****
We all enjoyed the book so much. It's bright and colorful and the story is so funny and just plain silly at times. It's super simple for young readers with no more than a sentence or so per page. This is a favorite this year.
5*****
December 15, 2019
Very very cute and gorgeous picture book, I would say for all ages because I loved it :-)
Found it in Blackwell's in Edinburgh, where it had a special place in a special reads section by the staff. It's about a little owl that falls asleep and falls from the nest and loses its way. Looking for his mum he meets a squirrel who is happy to help and presents the little owl with various potential mums... a bear, a hare, a frog... until of course mum is found. Now little owl, don't fall asleep and fall from the nest again... Extremely cute and best of all, such beautiful artwork, beautiful pictures! For all ages!!
Found it in Blackwell's in Edinburgh, where it had a special place in a special reads section by the staff. It's about a little owl that falls asleep and falls from the nest and loses its way. Looking for his mum he meets a squirrel who is happy to help and presents the little owl with various potential mums... a bear, a hare, a frog... until of course mum is found. Now little owl, don't fall asleep and fall from the nest again... Extremely cute and best of all, such beautiful artwork, beautiful pictures! For all ages!!
October 22, 2010
I dislike children generally. And more pointedly I dislike the schlumpy mothers hobbling around grocery stores with their large, mewling broods in tow -- nosepicking, running, and squawking Helen Kellerly at the brightly packaged merchandise on the shelves. Meanwhile, the matriarch -- either oblivious or basking in a mistaken sense of entitlement -- deliberately allows her miniature Axis of Evil to annex most of the frozen food aisle and deprive the mercifully childless of any chance at a peaceful shopping experience.
Just previously, I alluded to a sense of entitlement as a hypothesis as to why so many mothers suck at mothering in public. I stand by this. These young Infant Vending Machines seem to think that they are performing a service to the community by populating the earth and that they should be honored as 'mothers' by the world because they 'do it all' -- raise the kids, hold down a job, take care of the home. Okay. Well, for starters -- and this is just strictly in the way of preliminaries, mind you -- nobody asked you to have kids, so that's all on you, basically. If you have five little brats circling you in a parking lot, screaming and/or bawling, while you're trying to find your car keys and talk to your mother on your cell phone, don't expect sympathy or a pat on the back from me. You should have thought of this moment before you laid on your back and let your skinny, redneck husband or boyfriend feed you the sausage. It doesn't require much imagination, after all, to know that children (in addition to enriching your life, or whatever the propaganda says) will make your life a living hell. And that's fine. Completely fine. But please remember that it is your private hell, so don't schlep it into the grocery store and have it infect my life when I'm just trying to buy a steam-in-bag thing of frozen broccoli. Choices. We make choices. Yeah, I know that being a mother sounds nice and all sometimes, maybe when you are imagining yourself old, sickly, alone, and decrepit. You'll need someone to give a damn about you then and change your adult diaper, won't you? But don't you see that your indifferent parenting and your pervasive dissatisfaction (perhaps that you spawned too early, and too much) will have a corrosive psychological effect on your bratlings over time, and they'll only be too happy to ship you off to a far-away nursing home that's only a grade or two better than Guantanamo Bay? No. Of course not. You don't think about these kinds of things when that greasy husband of yours is running his fingers through your split ends and lubricating your sexual and maternal inhibitions with Wild Turkey and pastoral fantasies of Aryan children traipsing through fields (empty retail lots) on the way to the Wal-Mart entrance.
Now, see? After reading that, I suppose you'll imagine that I am a cold, heartless, unsentimental guy, but nothing could be further from the truth. I picked up Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art gift shop last week, and I was immediatedly beguiled (yes -- beguiled!) by this simple, cute tale of owl who happens to be both little and lost. It's basically the story of an owl who falls out of his nest and can't find his mommy. My heart was breaking as I stood there amidst the Chinese-manufactured claptrap and felt simultaneously the emotions of the owl and the owlmommy. What a sudden and relentless fit of empathy! But for an illustrated owl, rather than for those dirty-faced kids in the drug store with their hands down their pants. You may say that my affections are misplaced, but children are guilty from birth. Guilty of the original sin of being born into this despicable human race -- the only species we know of that is capable of evil. Oh, yeah. Whatever. You were going to say that therefore we are also the only species that is capable of good. Big deal. I'd rather make sure that a little lost anthropomorphized illustrated owl is rescued from its mommylessness than concern myself with the lost cause of the human race. Ho hum. Let's just say we pretty much know the bold strokes of the human story well enough to know that it will not end well. As you might guess, the eponymous owl of the book is in fact returned to his mother by the end, but then Haughton isn't quite content to let it lie there. He has to intrude with the shitty, sisyphean awfulness of the world as we know it, but I still love this book because it's funny (yes) and cute (fuck yes) and the illustrations (which look like cut-outs actually) are pretty impressive. My one major quibble with the book, because I am something of a typeface obsessive, is that the text's font is somewhat unappealing. It's a novelty sans-serif with too great a distance between characters and a tendency to slouch unappealingly. While I understand why this font was selected -- it's primitivist and friendly, to be sure -- I think they could have done better.
Just previously, I alluded to a sense of entitlement as a hypothesis as to why so many mothers suck at mothering in public. I stand by this. These young Infant Vending Machines seem to think that they are performing a service to the community by populating the earth and that they should be honored as 'mothers' by the world because they 'do it all' -- raise the kids, hold down a job, take care of the home. Okay. Well, for starters -- and this is just strictly in the way of preliminaries, mind you -- nobody asked you to have kids, so that's all on you, basically. If you have five little brats circling you in a parking lot, screaming and/or bawling, while you're trying to find your car keys and talk to your mother on your cell phone, don't expect sympathy or a pat on the back from me. You should have thought of this moment before you laid on your back and let your skinny, redneck husband or boyfriend feed you the sausage. It doesn't require much imagination, after all, to know that children (in addition to enriching your life, or whatever the propaganda says) will make your life a living hell. And that's fine. Completely fine. But please remember that it is your private hell, so don't schlep it into the grocery store and have it infect my life when I'm just trying to buy a steam-in-bag thing of frozen broccoli. Choices. We make choices. Yeah, I know that being a mother sounds nice and all sometimes, maybe when you are imagining yourself old, sickly, alone, and decrepit. You'll need someone to give a damn about you then and change your adult diaper, won't you? But don't you see that your indifferent parenting and your pervasive dissatisfaction (perhaps that you spawned too early, and too much) will have a corrosive psychological effect on your bratlings over time, and they'll only be too happy to ship you off to a far-away nursing home that's only a grade or two better than Guantanamo Bay? No. Of course not. You don't think about these kinds of things when that greasy husband of yours is running his fingers through your split ends and lubricating your sexual and maternal inhibitions with Wild Turkey and pastoral fantasies of Aryan children traipsing through fields (empty retail lots) on the way to the Wal-Mart entrance.
Now, see? After reading that, I suppose you'll imagine that I am a cold, heartless, unsentimental guy, but nothing could be further from the truth. I picked up Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art gift shop last week, and I was immediatedly beguiled (yes -- beguiled!) by this simple, cute tale of owl who happens to be both little and lost. It's basically the story of an owl who falls out of his nest and can't find his mommy. My heart was breaking as I stood there amidst the Chinese-manufactured claptrap and felt simultaneously the emotions of the owl and the owlmommy. What a sudden and relentless fit of empathy! But for an illustrated owl, rather than for those dirty-faced kids in the drug store with their hands down their pants. You may say that my affections are misplaced, but children are guilty from birth. Guilty of the original sin of being born into this despicable human race -- the only species we know of that is capable of evil. Oh, yeah. Whatever. You were going to say that therefore we are also the only species that is capable of good. Big deal. I'd rather make sure that a little lost anthropomorphized illustrated owl is rescued from its mommylessness than concern myself with the lost cause of the human race. Ho hum. Let's just say we pretty much know the bold strokes of the human story well enough to know that it will not end well. As you might guess, the eponymous owl of the book is in fact returned to his mother by the end, but then Haughton isn't quite content to let it lie there. He has to intrude with the shitty, sisyphean awfulness of the world as we know it, but I still love this book because it's funny (yes) and cute (fuck yes) and the illustrations (which look like cut-outs actually) are pretty impressive. My one major quibble with the book, because I am something of a typeface obsessive, is that the text's font is somewhat unappealing. It's a novelty sans-serif with too great a distance between characters and a tendency to slouch unappealingly. While I understand why this font was selected -- it's primitivist and friendly, to be sure -- I think they could have done better.
June 9, 2018
A beauty of a children's book with awesome picture pages and a cute story about a young owl who falls from his perch and looses his Mommy. He meets some new friends along his journey. Will they be able to help the young owl to find his Mommy? I loved this book and young children would be able to understand the book just from the illustrations alone. 🌈
April 28, 2023
یادم به یه قسمتی از نمایشنامه “در انتظار گودو” میفته.
——
« + Est-ce que je t’ai jamais quitté ?
- Tu m’as laissé partir ! »
——
اونجایی که ولادیمیر به استراگون میگه من هیچوقت ترکت نکردم و استراگون برمیگرده میگه اما گذاشتی من برم.
از نظر استراگون این به اندازه کافی دلیل محکمی هست که برنجه.
چرا یادش افتادم؟
چون درسته که مامان جغده بلخره بچه جغده رو پیدا میکنه اما از اول میتونست بیشتر مواظب باشه که اون نیفته. چطور هنوز نمیدونست توی اون ارتفاع, توی یه لونه بدون حفاظ, امکان سقوط هست؟ و چطور اصلا به موقع سقوطش رو ندید و همون لحظه نرفت پیداش کنه؟
اون سنجابه درسته به نظر خنگ میومد, درسته کمکهای احمقانه میکرد, درسته خونه جغده درست همون بالا بود و سنجابه اونقد مغز فندقی بود که نگفت بیا اول اطراف همینجایی که گم شدی رو بگردیم, نگفت بیا اول بالای همین درختا رو نگاه کنیم. اما اینا چه اهمیتی داره؟ وقتی از همون لحظه اول وارد عمل شد و خواست که کمک کنه بچه جغده خونه شو
پیدا کنه و همراهش سراسیمه اینور و اونور میدویید و تنهاش نذاشت
اگه مامان جغده، آخر که بچه جغده رو پیدا و بغل کرده بود، بهش میگفت "بیبی! من هیچوقت رهات نکردم" به نظرم کاملا به جا میبود که بچه جغده جواب میداد: "اما تو گذاشتی من بیفتم"
و بعد دست سنجاب رو میگرفت و برای همیشه با هم توی جنگل گم میشدن
حتی اگه هرگز پرواز کردن رو یاد نمیگرفت.
اما کی میدونه؟ شاید سنجاب حتی با همون مغز فندقیش و کمکهای احمقانه, حتی با اینکه خودش پرواز بلد نبود, اونقدر به تلاش ادامه میداد تا بچه جغده پرواز هم یاد بگیره
کی میدونه؟
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« + Est-ce que je t’ai jamais quitté ?
- Tu m’as laissé partir ! »
——
اونجایی که ولادیمیر به استراگون میگه من هیچوقت ترکت نکردم و استراگون برمیگرده میگه اما گذاشتی من برم.
از نظر استراگون این به اندازه کافی دلیل محکمی هست که برنجه.
چرا یادش افتادم؟
چون درسته که مامان جغده بلخره بچه جغده رو پیدا میکنه اما از اول میتونست بیشتر مواظب باشه که اون نیفته. چطور هنوز نمیدونست توی اون ارتفاع, توی یه لونه بدون حفاظ, امکان سقوط هست؟ و چطور اصلا به موقع سقوطش رو ندید و همون لحظه نرفت پیداش کنه؟
اون سنجابه درسته به نظر خنگ میومد, درسته کمکهای احمقانه میکرد, درسته خونه جغده درست همون بالا بود و سنجابه اونقد مغز فندقی بود که نگفت بیا اول اطراف همینجایی که گم شدی رو بگردیم, نگفت بیا اول بالای همین درختا رو نگاه کنیم. اما اینا چه اهمیتی داره؟ وقتی از همون لحظه اول وارد عمل شد و خواست که کمک کنه بچه جغده خونه شو
پیدا کنه و همراهش سراسیمه اینور و اونور میدویید و تنهاش نذاشت
اگه مامان جغده، آخر که بچه جغده رو پیدا و بغل کرده بود، بهش میگفت "بیبی! من هیچوقت رهات نکردم" به نظرم کاملا به جا میبود که بچه جغده جواب میداد: "اما تو گذاشتی من بیفتم"
و بعد دست سنجاب رو میگرفت و برای همیشه با هم توی جنگل گم میشدن
حتی اگه هرگز پرواز کردن رو یاد نمیگرفت.
اما کی میدونه؟ شاید سنجاب حتی با همون مغز فندقیش و کمکهای احمقانه, حتی با اینکه خودش پرواز بلد نبود, اونقدر به تلاش ادامه میداد تا بچه جغده پرواز هم یاد بگیره
کی میدونه؟
September 6, 2019
Neo is back at the helm, reading up a storm and loving it. When Little Owl tumbles from the family nest, the hunt is on to find Mommy Owl. With the help of a trusty squirrel and frog, Little Owl scours the area, using clues and hints to locate Mommy. With patience and dedication, the hunt may just be fruitful, but it will take a great effort. Neo enjoyed the book and its pictures. He agrees that it may be a little below his reading level, but he needed a quick find for his nightly reading. Great for young readers with colourful pictures and a warm ending.
December 2, 2024
واهااهاایی این کتاب از همه جلدها بهتره 🥲🥲
خیلی داستان خنگ باحالی داره.
همه توی این قصه یجور شیرینی خنگن.
خوبه آخرش بچه جغد مامانشو پیدا کرد.
یبار منم کوچیک تر که بودم، همراه مامانم از مهمونی برمیگشتیم، یه بچه کوچولو توی خیابون پیدا کردیم و مامانم همون اطراف رو گشت و خانواده شو پیدا کرد. اتفاقا اونام رفته بودن مهمونی و مامانش انقد سرش گرم شده بود که حواسش از بچه پرت شده بود و اونم راه افتاده بود توی کوچه ها. از این مامانای خونسرد مسئولیت ناپذیر خییییلی بدم میاد و بنظرم باید اعدام بشن.
خیلی داستان خنگ باحالی داره.
همه توی این قصه یجور شیرینی خنگن.
خوبه آخرش بچه جغد مامانشو پیدا کرد.
یبار منم کوچیک تر که بودم، همراه مامانم از مهمونی برمیگشتیم، یه بچه کوچولو توی خیابون پیدا کردیم و مامانم همون اطراف رو گشت و خانواده شو پیدا کرد. اتفاقا اونام رفته بودن مهمونی و مامانش انقد سرش گرم شده بود که حواسش از بچه پرت شده بود و اونم راه افتاده بود توی کوچه ها. از این مامانای خونسرد مسئولیت ناپذیر خییییلی بدم میاد و بنظرم باید اعدام بشن.
December 31, 2021
Ein absolut reizendes Bilderbuch für Kinder von 18 - 24 Monaten.
Eine kleine Eule fällt aus ihrem Nest und findet mit Hilfe von Eichhörnchen und Frosch seine Mami wieder.
Besonders gut hat mir gefallen, dass die Illustrationen nich so süsslich-kleindkindartig waren, wie man sie oft findet.
Eine kleine Eule fällt aus ihrem Nest und findet mit Hilfe von Eichhörnchen und Frosch seine Mami wieder.
Besonders gut hat mir gefallen, dass die Illustrationen nich so süsslich-kleindkindartig waren, wie man sie oft findet.
May 28, 2017
Always ready for another 'I am lost and can't find mommy' story - this one is written simply and the art is vibrant.
December 6, 2020
Głupio mi to pisać o dziele liczącym 28 stron, ale suspens tutaj zmarł. Fajne ilustracje, zaczęło się uroczo, ale to rozwiązanie fabuły... nieee. Wyszło płasko. Zostawia mnie (i 2-letnią współczytelniczkę) w niemiłym niedosycie. Zresztą było już kilka książeczek o niemal identycznej fabule (w tym jedna polska).
March 9, 2020
اصل اول: وقتی گم شدی صبر کن همونجا مامانت بیاد پیدا کنه.
+نقاشی خرس آبی:دی
+نقاشی خرس آبی:دی
December 2, 2024
جغدی بیا گمشده پیدا شده😂
البته که خیلی مامان بیخیالی بود ولی واسم جالب بود که وقتی این جغد از اون بالا افتاده چرا به جایی که همون بالا رو بگردن میرن اون طرف و شروع میکنن به گشتن.
حالا زیاد مهم نیست و منم سخت نمیگیرم و این قضیه تجربه خوندنم رو خراب نکرد. همچنان بسیار خوندنی و قشنگ. عاشق جغد کوچولو شدم چقدر بامزهس.
البته که خیلی مامان بیخیالی بود ولی واسم جالب بود که وقتی این جغد از اون بالا افتاده چرا به جایی که همون بالا رو بگردن میرن اون طرف و شروع میکنن به گشتن.
حالا زیاد مهم نیست و منم سخت نمیگیرم و این قضیه تجربه خوندنم رو خراب نکرد. همچنان بسیار خوندنی و قشنگ. عاشق جغد کوچولو شدم چقدر بامزهس.
February 10, 2020
This is a sweet and well illustrated story about a little owl who falls from his nest and needs help finding his mother. A helpful chipmunk tries to help him and asks what she looks like, leading to misadventures as the little guy describes her feature by feature (big eyes, pointed ears, etc.) and is led to creatures who are not at all his mama (a frog, bunny, etc.). Ultimately, they reunite and mama offers the little owl's new forest friends cookies in their nest.
My 8 year-old daughter and I read the Spanish version of this book (Un Poco Perdido). My youngest kids and I have all been studying Spanish in our homeschool and this was a fun supplement to that because of the sparse text. The font is rather square and can be hard to read for early readers or those who aren't fluent in Spanish (a's and o's can be hard to differentiate, for instance), but it's still a charming little book that young kids are likely to enjoy. The art is colorful and fun, and the story is simple and sweet.
I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.
My 8 year-old daughter and I read the Spanish version of this book (Un Poco Perdido). My youngest kids and I have all been studying Spanish in our homeschool and this was a fun supplement to that because of the sparse text. The font is rather square and can be hard to read for early readers or those who aren't fluent in Spanish (a's and o's can be hard to differentiate, for instance), but it's still a charming little book that young kids are likely to enjoy. The art is colorful and fun, and the story is simple and sweet.
I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.
November 15, 2010
love LOVE the illustrations! adorable story too :)
March 27, 2017
Adorably cute and funny.
June 17, 2021
Dit boekje bleef echt hangen bij onze dochter. Ze heeft het verhaal een paar weken lang nagespeeld met haar knuffels...
May 14, 2014
I grabbed this picture book during the same library visit when I checked out " Stuck" by Oliver Jeffers. My kids and I were SO excited for "Stuck" that I figured the others would pale in comparison. However, "Little Owl Lost" quickly became the star of the batch.
This book has all the elements of an outstanding picture book:
Super-simple writing that's executed perfectly. I particularly love how sure the squirrel is that he can help. Upon hearing about the owl's predicament, squirrel says "Yes, yes. I know! I know! I'll find your mommy." Then, when he presents the owl with a bear, squirrel says "Here she is, here's your mommy!" Squirrel is so cutely confident he's solved the problem. When he learns he hasn't, squirrel has that great "no worries, back to work" attitude that I love.
We really dug the bright, bold colors in the illustrations and all the nice white space. You won't see normal greens and browns in the trees in this forest. Instead, they are mainly various shades of oranges and pinks! A very clever and out of the ordinary color palette.
And the writer expertly uses the infamous picture book "rule of threes" which means (most of the time) the main characters will face three challenges before he/she/they solve the problem. Because that's pretty much the attention span of a young reader!
All in all this is a beautiful crafted, very enjoyable book with a high read-it-again factor. It's so quick and simple yet visually appealing and unique, you'll be happy to share it with your little ones as many times as they ask for it. Just watch out for that moment when mother owl and Little Owl are reunited. And remember, it's OK to get a bit emotional, even if it's just a picture book!
This book has all the elements of an outstanding picture book:
Super-simple writing that's executed perfectly. I particularly love how sure the squirrel is that he can help. Upon hearing about the owl's predicament, squirrel says "Yes, yes. I know! I know! I'll find your mommy." Then, when he presents the owl with a bear, squirrel says "Here she is, here's your mommy!" Squirrel is so cutely confident he's solved the problem. When he learns he hasn't, squirrel has that great "no worries, back to work" attitude that I love.
We really dug the bright, bold colors in the illustrations and all the nice white space. You won't see normal greens and browns in the trees in this forest. Instead, they are mainly various shades of oranges and pinks! A very clever and out of the ordinary color palette.
And the writer expertly uses the infamous picture book "rule of threes" which means (most of the time) the main characters will face three challenges before he/she/they solve the problem. Because that's pretty much the attention span of a young reader!
All in all this is a beautiful crafted, very enjoyable book with a high read-it-again factor. It's so quick and simple yet visually appealing and unique, you'll be happy to share it with your little ones as many times as they ask for it. Just watch out for that moment when mother owl and Little Owl are reunited. And remember, it's OK to get a bit emotional, even if it's just a picture book!
January 13, 2017
What a thing: loosing one's mommy~~~
January 17, 2018
This book melted my heart! Baby Owl goes on a hunt to find Mummy Owl with the help of his friends.
July 5, 2022
Really cute and funny. Makes kids feel adventurous and safe at the same time.
March 3, 2011
Cute folksy artwork! The story tells the simple tale of an owl who tries to find his mother by describing her features to a helpful squirrel—hilarity ensues. Great read-a-loud and dialogic reading (asking open ended questions).
Early Literacy Skills:
Narrative Skills
Print Motivation
Early Literacy Skills:
Narrative Skills
Print Motivation
December 13, 2010
Poor Little Owl has trouble staying in his nest. With the help of a friend, Squirrel, he searches and searches for his momma. His descriptions allow for guessing to see what Squirrel will think of next. Illustrations are bold and fun!
April 22, 2014
One word: A-freakin-dorable!
Read this. Read this now.
Read this. Read this now.
February 5, 2015
An up-to-date Are You My Mother
May 4, 2016
Delicioso!
November 16, 2019
The design element of this book is so lovely, with additional half-pages to be used to alter the illustrations (which are also really cute). Little owl has fallen out of his nest and is desperately searching for his mummy, and with the help of lots of other animals unfamiliar to him he might just find her.
I loved that the owl didn't know how to describe what an owl looked like! He used different features, such as her big eyes, to describe her to the animals but this only led him to other animals who also had those features but were definitely not an owl, or his mummy more to the point! I thought this was so clever and I really appreciated what the author was trying to do here.
The narrative was fun, had plenty of dialogue to accompany the illustrations and the characters were all quite likeable. Another great board book by Chris Haughton.
Incidental note: This book has another title, "Little Owl Lost", but is the same book inside.
ARC provided free from the publishers in exchange for an honest review.
I loved that the owl didn't know how to describe what an owl looked like! He used different features, such as her big eyes, to describe her to the animals but this only led him to other animals who also had those features but were definitely not an owl, or his mummy more to the point! I thought this was so clever and I really appreciated what the author was trying to do here.
The narrative was fun, had plenty of dialogue to accompany the illustrations and the characters were all quite likeable. Another great board book by Chris Haughton.
Incidental note: This book has another title, "Little Owl Lost", but is the same book inside.
ARC provided free from the publishers in exchange for an honest review.
October 15, 2019
Little owl falls off of his branch. Squirrel tries to be helpful and bring Owl back to his mommy, but each time, squirrel brings little owl to the wrongly described animal. Eventually they are reunited and owl’s mommy is very happy to have him back.
June 18, 2024
Story 3
Illustration 5
Illustration 5
January 23, 2022
Incredibly sweet story about a small owlet searching her mommy. The illustrations are rather understated which is probably not everyone's style but very appropriate for small children.
My son has loved this book since he was about 6 months old. It's still a beloved companion 1 year later.
My son has loved this book since he was about 6 months old. It's still a beloved companion 1 year later.
April 29, 2024
c’est à la fois super mims mais aussi giga drôle krkrkr les répliques du bébé chouette me fume à chaque fois (oui je l’ai lu au moins 5x en 2 jours, la faute à ma nièce 🤓) : faut dire que l’écureuil se foule pas trop en terme de recherche 🤪
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