Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. My little book. Each book in the series is intended to be simple enough for early readers to follow, but technically accurate enough to move them towards a fuller understanding of the real lives of animals in the wild. This book tells the tale of a breeding pair of owls who convert an abandoned prairie dog burrow into a safe place to raise their chicks.
Readers follow the owls as they go through courtship, prepare the nest and incubate their eggs.
Readers then learn how the eggs hatch and the baby owlets emerge. The book shows the chicks growing, feeding and learning to hunt, as well as evading predation by a fox and eventually learning to fly. The book ends by showing the healthy young owls as they take flight on their first migration south to warmer climates, where they will spend the winter before returning to raise baby owls of their own. All the books in this series are illustrated by the same artist using full page color paintings throughout. The illustrations have a unique style, intended to be whimsical and appealing, yet also realistic so that they reveal useful information about the natural history of the subjects.