Review: The Snow Owl
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2013
This is a SHORT short story ... only 11 pages.  This is the second book that I have read written by Jon, I had read Firebug several months ago and didn't care for it.But this story captures the imagination and the heart.  I think it is the love that the father has for this child only because he loved the boys mother so much.  The boy looks nothing like his father, or his mother.  Although he LOVES the winter.  He also tells tales about a land where he is a missing Prince.  One day he created a snow owl, instead of a snow man.  He tells his father that the snow owl is going to take him home - back to the magic land where he belongs.The anguish the father feels as the story progresses through to the climatic ending is breathtaking.  It's a great quick read.  And I enjoyed it very much.