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Whoo-Ku Haiku: A Great Horned Owl Story

Maria Gianferrari

Illustrator: Jonathan Voss

Ages: 6+

Published: 2020

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons BFYR/PRH

ISBN: 978-0-3995-4842-0

Keywords: Birds, flight, habitats

The nesting, egg-laying, hatching, and flights of an owl family are dramatized through haiku poetry and expressive dreamy watercolor/sepia ink illustration. Back matter.