5/8/2023 0 Comments Owly flying lessonsOwly just lives in a world where you can garden with you friends and any stranger in your neighborhood is an opportunity meet new friends and learn from them. I was rather happy to see that this little tale was without much in the way of a moral. The blurb on the back of the book talks about lessons learned and how everyone is different. I think that is mainly an artifact of trying to give depth to characters with no words. Both Owly and Wormy get a little emo, with tears welling in their eyes when they see one another hurt, confused, or dissappointed. Owly as a character is certainly likable and even non-gender-identified (for those who have kept count and dispaired). May is already fond of owls, at least in part from having her pre-school be at an Audobon Center. There are a few exceptions to the no words rule (writing in books, onomotopeias), but it was so much fun to watch May light up when she realized she could read this book "all by myself!" Speech is represented in symbols, allowing a 3-year-old to follow the whole story (not just look at the pictures) without yet knowing how to read. Cartoonist Andy Runton’s Owly stories star a kind-hearted (vegetarian) owl who, along with his best friend Wormy, has sweet adventures and makes lots of new forest friends. The thing that set this book apart for me and caused me to buy it for my 3-year-old daughter (on the recommendation of the clerk at the comic book shop) was that the charcters don't speak, at least not in words. In Flying Lessons, Owly and Wormy glimpse a mysterious new neighbor, a flying squirrel, and are eager to become friends. This is a sweet little book about a young owl and his friend a worm living in some quiet woods.
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