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Little Blink sleeps by day, then waits at night for Mother Owl to come home. But on this day, at dawn, he begins asking her, "Now? Is it time?" The quiet, cadenced text describes what goes on nearby - beetles scuttling, a squirrel jumping past - as Blink impatiently waits and his mother repeats, "Soon. Go back to sleep." At last, dusk deepens, the night breeze stirs with "puff and nonsense," and it's time for his first flight. Young children will enjoy the reversal of night and day for a creature whose eagerness to wake and rise so resembles theirs; Lambert's gentle, soft-edged forms, restful designs, and appealing little owl are just the right complement for a book whose peaceful tone makes it, ironically, a perfect bedtime story. (Kirkus Reviews)
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"Once, at the edge of a wood, lived two owls, a mother owl and her young one, Blink. Every day, all day long, they slept. Every night, all night long, the mother owl flew and Blink waited." This is the story of a momentous event in the life of a young owl - his first flight. All day long he waits, with increasing impatience, as the sun rises then falls. He watches other creatures - butterflies and beetles - bustling in the sunshine and keeps asking "Is it time yet?" Then, at last, the sun sets and the moon appears and Blink's mother tells him it is time. Away he soars, high in the sky, over the wood, over the fields, over the railway and the sleeping city. It's his first flight, a fly-by-night. June Crebbin is the author of a number of books for children, including "The Train Ride" (also illustrated by Stephen Lambert), "Danny's Duck" and two volumes of verse, "The Jungle Sale" and "The Dinosaur's Dinner". Stephen Lambert is the illustrator of "The Magpie and the Star", "What is the Sun?" and "The Train Ride".
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