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Original Title:	Owl at Home
ISBN:	0064440346 (ISBN13: 9780064440349)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Zilveren Griffel (1981), Vlag en Wimpel Penseeljury (1981)

Owl at Home (I Can Read ~ Level 2)

Arnold Lobel

Paperback | Pages: 64 pages

Rating: 4.19 | 6114 Users | 297 Reviews

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Title	:	Owl at Home (I Can Read ~ Level 2)
Author	:	Arnold Lobel
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 64 pages
Published	:	October 18th 1982 by HarperCollins (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Childrens. Picture Books. Fiction

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Even though this book was published in 1975, it is still very beloved and a classic for children nowadays. I always read children this book and children continue to talk about and love this book. Not only was Lobel a great author, but his illustrations are on point.

Some people adore Frog and Toad Are Friends and the other Frog and Toad books - I agree. They are great. Some people love Mouse Soup. But for me, the best Lobel book will always be Owl At Home.

1.) The first story, THE GUEST, is about the time Owl heard a banging and pounding on the door.

Owl was just trying to sit in front of the fire and eat his buttered toast and hot pea soup when he hears someone knocking on the door.
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It is winter. Winter is knocking at the door.

Owl decides to be kind and let Winter into the house.

But Winter is a terrible houseguest.
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It freezes the soup and puts out the fire. It covers the inside of Owl's house in snow.

Finally, Owl kicks Winter out of the house.
Owl made a new fire in the fireplace. The room became warm again. The snow melted away. The hard, green ice turned back into soft pea soup. Owl sat down in his chair and quietly finished his supper.

This story is amazing. Wintery and spooky.

2.) STRANGE BUMPS

This is one of my favorite stories in life.

Owl is going to bed when he sees two strange lumps under the blanket.

Owl lifted up the blanket.
He looked down into the bed.
All he could see was darkness.
Owl tried to sleep, but he could not.

This scary, frightening tale is a precursor to the Grudge. The little ones will be reading this book, and then when they are teenagers looking for a scary movie they will pop in THE GRUDGE or maybe JU-ON and the will get the shit scared out of them and they will remember this little story.

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"What if those two strange bumps grow bigger and bigger while I am asleep?" said Owl.

"That would not be pleasant."

No, it would not be pleasant. It would be scary as fuck.

Of course, the "joke" is that Owl is lying in bed terrified of his own feet.

Children will find this scary, yet ridiculous, in a way you swear no one could pull off, but Lobel does.

Amazing story, A+

3.) TEAR WATER TEA

Owl thinks of things that are sad in order to cry. Then he boils his tears for tea and drinks it.

Again, just the exact right combination of 'fun' and 'creepy as fuck.' Children will be delighted.

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4.) UPSTAIRS AND DOWNSTAIRS

Owl always wonders about the parts of his house he is not in. When he is upstairs, he wonders how things are going downstairs. When he is downstairs, he always wonders how things are going upstairs.

"There must be a way," said Owl, "to be upstairs and to be downstairs at the same time."

He runs very fast up and down the stairs. Eventually he despairs. The book ends with

"When I am up," said Owl, "I am not down. When I am down, I am not up. All I am is very tired!"

Owl sat down to rest. He sat on the tenth step because it was a place that was right in the middle.

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5.) OWL AND THE MOON

Okay, last story.

Owl goes to the beach at night. He watches the moon for a long time.

"If I am looking at you, moon, then you must be looking back at me. We must be very good friends."

But when he leaves the beach, the moon starts following Owl home. No matter how many times Owl tells moon that moon shouldn't do this, moon keeps following him.
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Eventually,

The moon went behind some clouds.

Owl looked and looked.

The moon was gone.

"It is always a little sad to say good-bye to a friend," said Owl.

Owl came home. He put on his pajamas and went to bed.

The room was very dark.

Owl was still feeling sad.

But when he looks out his window, he sees that moon has followed him all the way home. Then he is not as sad, sleeping in the moon's glowing light coming through his window.
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Tl;dr - This book has been and always will be a classic for young children. Not only are children delighted in a (smart, amazingly-written) book that they can read ALL ON THEIR OWN, but Lobel's stories and illustrations brilliantly combine spooky images and concepts with a foolish owl that the children can laugh at. Wonderful, amazing, and also serving as "baby's first scary book" (which has the safety catch of not being too scary), Lobel brings us a true marvel.

Another amazing thing I've noticed is that children will remember these stories (especially STRANGE LUMPS) for their entire lives and even adults' faces light up when you remind them of this book. Wintery and scary. A true classic from 1975.

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This was some delightful madness. Yes it was just a fun kid's story with some wacky illogic and some really cozy lovely illustrations all with a gentle earth-tone palette. Yup. And the stories would be great fun for a kid.But if you look at what actually happens in the story, and you look into owl's intense, unblinking eyes, you see here almost a Baby's First Lovecraft- each being a spooky tale of madness and mystery.In the first tale, The Guest, Owl, spurred on only by some banging outside,

Oh gosh. How have I never read this yet? I mean, welcoming winter and being scared of the two bumps near the bottom of your bed are bemusing enough, and I don't know if Lobel or Frank Asch did the moon as friend & follower better, and upstairs/ downstairs is classic... but, erm, "Tearwater Tea?!" Wtf? Deep, man.

I came to Owl at Home rather late in life. I had a friend when I was 15/16/17/18 that lived in a different state, she and I were constantly picking up owl things to send to each other.I found this at a library sale one day and bought it for a quarter to include in the next package I sent her.I read it when I got home, and - oh my. I never actually ended up putting it in the post.Owl's Tear-water Tea was (and is) my favourite story in the book. It still appeals to me in a strangely wistful and

Captivating tales to be read again and again! They have valuable, life long lessons. I think about them on many occasions, and I'd recommend this book to anyone. I'd really like to read it again, but thanks to my brothers, the pages are scattered to the four winds.

A treasure, indeed, are Arnold Lobel's stories, a library of fine literature that could keep one occupied for much longer than the time required just to read them all. Like the Frog and Toad series, Owl at Home is a book of vignettes that mean more than their surface humor indicates, though they're also enjoyable purely as episodic jaunts into the everyday life of Owl, who resides by himself in his house in the woods and partakes in comedic adventures usually resulting from his own appealingly

owl has a sweet little home, he invites winter in but sadly winter is not the best guest...strange bumps in his bed worry him but at least he has a comfy chair to sleep in...tear water tea will be familiar to anyone who has ever felt the need for a good cry and the calm that comes after it...learning that you cannot be everywhere all the time is a tough lesson for owl...finally, a good friend who travels with you always is a comfort...i don't know if books have gotten sillier or if i just don't

Purchased as a gift. I was given this thirty years ago and have read it to children from three years old to sixteen. Beautiful stories with a wonderfully amusing (yet also in some ways very sad) Owl in his home. I particularly love 'Tear Water Tea' and of course the fabulous 'Strange Bumps'I also have a copy of the same author's book 'Frog and Toad'. Again, a wonderful book.