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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.