Owl at Home audiobook

Even though this book was published in 1975, it is still very beloved and a classic for children nowadays. I always read children this book and children continue to talk about and love this book. Not only was Lobel a great author, but his illustrations are on point.Some people adore Frog and Toad Are Friends and the other Frog and Toad books - I agree. They are great. Some people love Mouse Soup. But for me, the best Lobel book will always be Owl At Home.1.) The first story, THE GUEST, is about the time Owl heard a banging and pounding on the door.Owl was just trying to sit in front of the fire and eat his buttered toast and hot pea soup when he hears someone knocking on the door.http://thebookmamablog.files.wordpres...It is winter. Winter is knocking at the door.Owl decides to be kind and let Winter into the house.But Winter is a terrible houseguest. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1v_fg3KAuyI...It freezes the soup and puts out the fire. It covers the inside of Owl's house in snow.Finally, Owl kicks Winter out of the house.Owl made a new fire in the fireplace. The room became warm again. The snow melted away. The hard, green ice turned back into soft pea soup. Owl sat down in his chair and quietly finished his supper.This story is amazing. Wintery and spooky.2.) STRANGE BUMPSThis is one of my favorite stories in life.Owl is going to bed when he sees two strange lumps under the blanket.Owl lifted up the blanket.He looked down into the bed.All he could see was darkness.Owl tried to sleep, but he could not.This scary, frightening tale is a precursor to the Grudge. The little ones will be reading this book, and then when they are teenagers looking for a scary movie they will pop in THE GRUDGE or maybe JU-ON and the will get the shit scared out of them and they will remember this little story.http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jx-pZVKELPA..."What if those two strange bumps grow bigger and bigger while I am asleep?" said Owl."That would not be pleasant."No, it would not be pleasant. It would be scary as fuck.Of course, the "joke" is that Owl is lying in bed terrified of his own feet.Children will find this scary, yet ridiculous, in a way you swear no one could pull off, but Lobel does.Amazing story, A+3.) TEAR WATER TEAOwl thinks of things that are sad in order to cry. Then he boils his tears for tea and drinks it.Again, just the exact right combination of 'fun' and 'creepy as fuck.' Children will be delighted.http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/7...4.) UPSTAIRS AND DOWNSTAIRSOwl always wonders about the parts of his house he is not in. When he is upstairs, he wonders how things are going downstairs. When he is downstairs, he always wonders how things are going upstairs."There must be a way," said Owl, "to be upstairs and to be downstairs at the same time."He runs very fast up and down the stairs. Eventually he despairs. The book ends with"When I am up," said Owl, "I am not down. When I am down, I am not up. All I am is very tired!"Owl sat down to rest. He sat on the tenth step because it was a place that was right in the middle.http://georgeshannon.files.wordpress....5.) OWL AND THE MOONOkay, last story.Owl goes to the beach at night. He watches the moon for a long time."If I am looking at you, moon, then you must be looking back at me. We must be very good friends."But when he leaves the beach, the moon starts following Owl home. No matter how many times Owl tells moon that moon shouldn't do this, moon keeps following him. http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/2...Eventually,The moon went behind some clouds.Owl looked and looked.The moon was gone."It is always a little sad to say good-bye to a friend," said Owl.Owl came home. He put on his pajamas and went to bed.The room was very dark.Owl was still feeling sad.But when he looks out his window, he sees that moon has followed him all the way home. Then he is not as sad, sleeping in the moon's glowing light coming through his window....Tl;dr - This book has been and always will be a classic for young children. Not only are children delighted in a (smart, amazingly-written) book that they can read ALL ON THEIR OWN, but Lobel's stories and illustrations brilliantly combine spooky images and concepts with a foolish owl that the children can laugh at. Wonderful, amazing, and also serving as "baby's first scary book" (which has the safety catch of not being too scary), Lobel brings us a true marvel.Another amazing thing I've noticed is that children will remember these stories (especially STRANGE LUMPS) for their entire lives and even adults' faces light up when you remind them of this book. Wintery and scary. A true classic from 1975.Ages 0-6

Don't be fooled by the cheery, bright-eyed owl merrily beaming at you on the cover. That candle is the only thing keeping our poor Owl from plunging into the darkness of his paranoid solitude.I don't know why I find this so amusing (and seriously, it's one of the funniest books to read to your kids), but each of the five stories in this collection shows our protagonist suffering some level of dementia. And I'm not trying to put some sinister spin on this book unnecessarily. All of these stories find Owl completely alone, usually just trying to find comfort in the solitude of his little house, and usually, he fails. Owl just wants to go to sleep. But something always gets in the way. SPOILER ALERT (is this really necessary for a kids' book?) These stories include the following insights into Owl's fragile mental state: He addresses, at various points, the winter wind as a friend of his, the moon as a tormenter, his own self (a genius stroke by Lobel - he yells up the stairs in an attempt to discover where he actually is - soon afterwards, he is rushing upstairs, feathers flying off of his tail, in pursuit of himself) and his bedsheets. He smashes his bed to pieces in fear of his own legs, and he cries into a teapot by imagining the sad emotions of things such as a pile of mashed potatoes and some misplaced silverware. He then drinks his own tears joyously. There are touches of this kind of mania in Lobel's Frog & Toad stories (Toad screaming at his garden, for instance) but in the end, those stories end up being about the power of friendship. Owl is all alone. Again, I'm not sure why I enjoy reading stories like this (similarly, seeing Grover lose his wits in "The Monster at the End of This Book" - it's hilarious to me) but this book is ... wait for it ... a hoot.

For the past few weeks, my almost-five-year-old little boy has been having nightmares about owls. The only way he will go to sleep is if our youngest cat, Molly Kitten, will curl up on his bed with him. She will stay awake until my son falls asleep. We thought these nightmares were imaginary because neither my husband nor I had seen an owl... until one night. My husband was just putting my son back into bed and telling him there are no owls when he heard, "Whooooo. Whoooo." He looked out the window and saw two glowing owl eyes. Molly jumped up to the window, tapped on the glass with her paw, and the owl flew away.The other day, I took my son to the bookstore and let him pick out any book he wanted. He picked out Owl At Home, so we bought it and took it home and read it. Owl At Home is a very likable owl, as likable, in fact, as Frog and Toad. He just doesn't get the same attention that Frog and Toad do. It's a pity, really, because apparently owls do need a positive mascot when it comes to kids. This book, like the Frog and Toad books, is written and illustrated with scads of charm that holds up well to repeated, and often very slow, readings. Sometimes the "classics" really are the best.

This is honestly one of my favourite books.It has been since I first learned to read.It still makes me wish and think and laugh and cry.Such a short book and a quick read but it makes me remember......to be silly....to be sweet....to be kind.It is a template for who I am and how I will always be.It is my "Goodbye Moon" ; especially at the end.

More wonderful stories from Lobel.My favorite of these was when Owl couldn't decide whether to stay upstairs or downstairs, and finally found a clever solution. I also remember Owl's tear-drop tea, especially because I cried along with Owl for those poor pencil stumps that are too short to use and those poor lost spoons no one ever finds and those beautiful sunrises no one will ever see. I was a very sentimental child.But besides all that, it's always delightful to read about your own species ;)

"Owl at Home" is strikingly beautiful children's literature. A perfect combination of melancholy and humor. I haven't seen another children's author deal with the theme of loneliness the way Lobel can. (See also, the Frog and Toad story "Alone.") My three year old girl loves Owl. (The first two stories are just slightly too scary for her, but she let me read all the way through them the first time.)

I loved this book. LOVED!!!need to buy it. I was seven when I read itand I have an obsession with owls.

4,5 sterren - Nederlandse hardcover Quote :Uil pakte de ketel uit de kast. "Vanavond ga ik tranenthee zetten,’ zei hij.Hij zette de ketel op zijn schoot. "Zo," zei Uil, "ik ga beginnen."Uil denkt aan allerlei verdrietige dingen: lepels die achter het fornuis zijn gevallen en die je nooit meer terugvindt, liedjes die niemand meer kan zingen omdat niemand de woorden meer weet, potloodjes die te klein zijn geworden om vast te houden...Na een tijdje is de ketel vol tranenwater. Uil warmt het op en geniet van een kopje heerlijke tranenthee.-Tijdloze verhalenbundel van Arnold Lobel, bestaande uit Bij Uil thuis, Sprinkhaan op stap, Muizenverhalen en Muizensoep.Ook deze bundel bevat tijdloze verhalen!!Geniet er zelf van. Blijft een aanrader!

Was there ever a chapter book (well, this is more a collection of very short stories anyway) in which a character was so well-defined by his lonesomeness? The Winter is Owl's ill-mannered guest. The Moon is Owl's friend, following him home in silent contemplation. There are some amusing experiments (the impossibility of being in two places at the same time), there's also child-like fear, some light paranoia, concerning bedtime (the two bumps at the end of the bed). But the tear-water tea is what this is really all about; the piercing tenderness of it. Owl's somewhat fragile mental state made me wonder if he's fit for life... A sublime reading experience; one of the most melancholy books I've ever read. You can easily read this online.

My Daughter loves Owl. Hilarious book, especially if you view it as Owl quarantining from Covid and entertaining himself with nonsense.

What a silly little cinnamon roll