Owl Babies - am I a complete wuss?

[MissM]

Does anyone else get a lump in their throat (and at one reading tears in their eyes) when they get to the page 'AND SHE CAME'? It gets me every time.

NQC does the male owl hang around to help bring up the chicks in real life? Because if not then nothing wrong with him not being present in the book.

Anyway, I like sotries where only one parent is present, it's more realistic for DS that way. MOst books seem to favour the two kids and two paretns type of family, so it's a welcome change when no father figure is featured.

Oh yes, Let's Get a Pup.
And The Mousehole Cat.

I have perfected my owl baby Bill voice over the years.

Owl Daddy is obviously out at the Owl Night Shift earning to keep Mummy and kids in the style of nest to which they are accustomed!

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I don't get it, actually. You know she's coming back and it's never in doubt! Blue Rabbit, on the other hand...

Great illustrations in Let's get a Pup, also... post-punk/Ska-esque Mum and Dad

Just very, very moving text at the end... am welling up just thinking of it!

I'm sure Owl Babies featured heavily in "I dont know how she does it" famous chic lit from a while back - forgotten the author. Think it might have been enough to make her give up her job or something..

"Once There Were Giants" does it for me, I have never read it without chocking up. They grow up so fast! (Mind you there's some sort of weird menage a trois thing going on in that book I'd like to get to the bottom of... but that's probably for another thread)

'Loveykins' by Quentin Blake a bit of a tear-jerker, too

When DD started nursery and we were both in pieces one of the carers said to her 'Mummys always come back'. That's going with me to the grave. DD knows Owl Babies by heart too and she's only a bit over 2. She always turns round and smiles at me at 'AND SHE CAME'. God, am getting all blurry eyed just thinking about it.

But UQD - little Bill has to sit on old bit of ivy. Daddy Owl is obviously not making that much .

I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't like Guess How Much I love You's irritating one-uphareship - well I love you to the moon and back. I so want Little Nutbrown Hare to say, "oh well, whoop-de-do for you, and you know what, I've gone off you actually, Big Nutbrown Hare...and anyway, have you never read Shakespeare? There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd. Now bog off and let me go to sleep."

Now...Goodbye Mog. That's a story to make you weep. And when they get older...Adolphus Tips...I couldn't speak for sobbing (luckily ds1 was too).

Daddy Owl is doing the best he can, while all Mummy Owl does is moan about how late home he is and how little he does around the tree when he gets in knackered at 6am.

Being nocturnal would an Owl night shift br the equivalent of a human day shift I wonder?

I just checked, and as I suspected, male owls do care for their young - most male birds do, albeit to greater or lesser degrees.

(and if they didn't, well, the book is hardly meant to be scientifically accurate, anyway, unless owls talk . Oh, yes, and sibs don't care for each other much, sometimes they eat each other.)

lol

Damn, I was so hoping it would be scientifically accurate! Of course owls talk, they just use tweets and hoots

Maybe daddy owl flucked off with a younger female owl? That would explain why mummy owl's always out, it's hard word being a single mum to three demanding owl babies.

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ds adores owl babies.... he brings it up to me constantly and demands it read to him.

haven't yet cried at it though.

goodbye mog made me sob the first time though

Daddy Owl is currently being denied access and is about to stage Owls For Justice protest on top of tree dressed as Superowl.

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