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Ollie Finds a New Home, The Story of a Burrowing Owl on Marco Island
Moving can be traumatic for children, and for young owls too! Join Ollie the burrowing owl as he searches for a new home and learns some life lessons about "change."
20 pages, Paperback
First published July 29, 2015
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May 22, 2016
Ollie is a young burrowing owl who is mastering the art of flying high and hovering, staying stationary in midair while flapping his wings. He is teaching his sister Nettie to do the same and cheering her on. Ollie is a happy owl. Then his parents, Nancy and Bob Burrows, announce that they have to move out of their comfy home on Marco Island. A developer has purchased the land above their home and they must move on.
This is unwelcome news to Ollie, who has lived here all the weeks of his life, and his stress and anxiety levels rise. Despite his parents’ reassurance that they will find another home as nice or nicer than the present one, Ollie frets but tries to keep his disappointment from showing. His parents remind him of all the good things that a change will bring – new friends, new places to fly around, and a room of his own.
Eventually, they find a lovely, bigger new home with lots of burrowing owl families as neighbors. Ollie doesn’t even have to make a new friend – the new friend came to him and invited him to join the soccer team.
This is a beautiful little book. Two to six-year-olds will love hearing this story over and over again. The illustrations are as witty as they are beautiful, capturing the personalities of each owl in facial expressions and body language. There is a little quiz at the end of the story that reinforces the facts about burrowing owls that children will delight in being able to answer correctly. The icing on the cake is that for each book purchased, one dollar is donated to the Burrowing Owl Protection Fund of Marco Island.
Keep this title in mind when you’re searching for holiday gifts for the children in your life. Send a little bit of Marco Island to your family and friends.
This is unwelcome news to Ollie, who has lived here all the weeks of his life, and his stress and anxiety levels rise. Despite his parents’ reassurance that they will find another home as nice or nicer than the present one, Ollie frets but tries to keep his disappointment from showing. His parents remind him of all the good things that a change will bring – new friends, new places to fly around, and a room of his own.
Eventually, they find a lovely, bigger new home with lots of burrowing owl families as neighbors. Ollie doesn’t even have to make a new friend – the new friend came to him and invited him to join the soccer team.
This is a beautiful little book. Two to six-year-olds will love hearing this story over and over again. The illustrations are as witty as they are beautiful, capturing the personalities of each owl in facial expressions and body language. There is a little quiz at the end of the story that reinforces the facts about burrowing owls that children will delight in being able to answer correctly. The icing on the cake is that for each book purchased, one dollar is donated to the Burrowing Owl Protection Fund of Marco Island.
Keep this title in mind when you’re searching for holiday gifts for the children in your life. Send a little bit of Marco Island to your family and friends.
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