Books like To See an Owl
By Matthew Cordell
For the kid who has ever waited and waited for something they wanted badly, this book honors that ache without rushing to fix it. Hushed, wistful, and patient, with a quiet payoff worth the wait.
On a late winter night, a young girl and her father walk silently into snowy woods, calling into the darkness in hopes that a real owl will answer back.
A young girl and her grandfather watch night after night for a barn owl, hoping its distinctive heart-shaped face will appear at their window.
Five toy friends sit on a windowsill, each waiting for something to happen — the owl for the moon, the pig for the rain, the bear for the wind, the puppy for the snow — while the rabbit just likes to wait.
A traveler pauses his horse-drawn sleigh at the edge of a snowy forest, lingering to take in the woods filling up with snow before remembering the miles and promises still ahead of him.
A boy and his dog believe a few falling snowflakes will turn into something wonderful, even while every grown-up around them insists it's nothing at all.
A single raindrop falls from the sky and grows into a puddle, then a pond, a lake, a river, and finally the sea, meeting animals and plants along the way.
A little boy plants a carrot seed, and though his mother, father, and big brother all warn him it won't grow, he waters it and pulls the weeds and waits, sure that he's right.
An old bear settles into his cave for winter sleep and dreams he's a cub again, wandering through summer, fall, winter, and spring before waking to a world as beautiful as his dream.
A little boy asks his mother where the wind goes when it stops, and together they trace how endings in nature — rain, waves, day — are really just beginnings somewhere else.
A farm boy obsessed with snow teaches himself to photograph snowflakes under a microscope, spending decades proving that no two are ever alike.
As geese fly south, forest animals prepare for winter each in their own way — until wise owls spot a rainbow ring around the moon and warn that a big snow is coming.
A bird gathers everything she needs to build a nest — pulling a worm from the ground, lifting twigs that are just the right size, pushing them into place — until her nest is finally ready and waiting.
