Owl MoonBy Jane Yolen

Illustrated by John Schoenherr

Owl Moon Did you remember that all

important words in a title are capitalized?

Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen has written many books that have earned great awards. She says that she gets ideas for her stories from conversations, music, artwork, and nature. Check out this address:

http://www.ipl.org/youth/AskAuthor/Yolen.html

John Schoenherr

John Schoenherr is the illustrator for Owl Moon.

Do you remember the difference between an author and an illustrator?

Answer

The author is the person who has an idea and writes the book.

The illustrator is the person who creates the pictures for the book.

You can find more books illustrated by John Schoenherr.

Awards In 1988 Owl Moon won the

Caldecott Medal for the best illustrations.

Caldecott Medal

Learn more about this award at: http://www.ala.org/alsc/cmedal.html

Owl Moon

By reading the title what do you think this book will be about?

A Great Horned Owl!

Owl Moon is based on a poem.Let’s read this owl poem before

we begin Jane Yolen’s book.Mr. Owl

I saw an owl up in a tree.

I looked at him, he looked at me,

I couldn’t tell you of his size.

For all I saw were tow big eyes;

As soon as I could make a dash,

Straight home I ran as quick as a flash!

Edna Hamilton