Owls

By Sandra Markle

Book Overview

Some of the fiercest and most skilled hunters in the world, owls use stealth, power, and a strong sense of hearing and sight to stalk and kill their prey.

Watch these cunning animals as they grow from small chicks into full-grown owls--honing the instincts and skills they'll need to become ferocious predators.

With remarkable photographs of animals on the hunt, this series focuses on some of the most skillful predators in the animal kingdom. Readers will be fascinated by how these animals track and kill their prey.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157505745X
• ISBN13: 9781575057453
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: First Avenue Editions (Tm)
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 10.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Are you an owl lover? Look at the photos in this book!

For the animal/owl lover in your house, get this book. Not only will you get detailed information about the lifestyle and habitat of owls, but you'll also get awesome photographs of different breeds of owls doing different things. There's up close shots of their big eyes, action shots of "the hunt," cute ones of owlets, even a semi-gross one of an owl pellet. There's even a glossary, bibliography for further reading and an index. A great book for kids and adults alike!

A Really Cool Book!

This book contains the best photographs of owls I have ever seen. The information is really thorough and very interesting. My students who are animal lovers are going to go nuts over this book.