Because he thinks that flying is too much work, a lazy little owl tricks the other barnyard animals into helping him get down to the ground, but his mother is not fooled.
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Ozzie, an owlet, would rather practice "being wise" than practice flying in this energetic though somewhat strained semi-cumulative tale, a British import. Left on a barn rafter with instructions from his mother to "be on the ground by the time I come back," Ozzie devises a flightless but labor-intensive plan to get there, involving hopping from the back of one farm animal to another, in descending size, until he's close enough to the ground to hop down. It's clear what Ozzie has in mind from the beginning, so when Ozzie reenacts his exchange with each animal, the text feels tedious rather than cleverly repetitive. Williamson hides Mother Owl so well in each of the giddy, slightly cartoonish spreads (at the end, Mother Owl admits witnessing all of Ozzie's antics) that readers may enjoy their second pass through the book, trying to find her, more than their first. Ages 3-7.
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A cumulative tale with a manipulative youngster as its hero. A young owl, Ozzie, is lazy; when his mother, hoping he'll fly, orders him down to the ground while she goes hunting, he finds a way around the order by enlisting the help of the other farmyard animals. Ozzie hops onto the horse and is carried to the cow; he hops onto the cow and demands to be carried to the pig, etc. In this fashion, he descends lower and lower, until he is safely on the ground. Coleman delivers the story in a comically rapid style, a crazy routine that ends in Ozzie's comeuppance (his mother has been watching him the entire time). It's fairly feeble humor, but preschoolers will love and soon be able to predict the phases of Ozzie's descent. Skillful watercolor and ink illustrations add bounce, but never get in the way of the story. (Picture book. 2-4) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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