Three owl babies whose mother has gone out in the night try to stay calm while she is gone.

The reader is asked to find numbers that are transformed into animal shapes and hidden in the illustrations.

Bear and his friends persuade a bashful owl to play with them.

Good friends Owly and Wormy are disappointed when their new plant attracts fat, green, bug-like things, instead of butterflies, until a metamorphosis occurs.

In a heartfelt and luminous story that celebrates friendship, the imagination, and those achingly magical summer days that seem to stretch on forever, a lonely young boy meets an unlikely companion, a majestic owl. What follows is a season of childhood adventure and innocent joy under the warmth of a blanket sky, until the poignant moment when the owl must continue his journey and fly away. Debut author--illustrator Tim Fischer's stirring words...

In a horse-drawn cart that arrives at night, short-order cook Owl prepares delicious meals for his nocturnal patrons, including a fox, a badger, some possums, and a poor mouse who sweeps the streets.