There's an Owl in the Shower

Reading this book in my Lacey Elementary class and is great for teaching students how to problem solve and forshadow. 133 pages

A great mentor text for a variety of subjects.

This heart-warming story discusses the importance of preserving the environment. The town cut down too many trees.This led to erosion and eventually the fish in the river died as a response. One little owl showed a wood cutters family how spotted owls are innocent creatures. They raised and loved

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the owl as a pet. It shows that people and animals can share this world.Humans just need to think about ways to protect it. The family in this story realized the father, who was a wood cutter, had enough knowledge about the forest to try to save the spotted owl's habitats.

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Lenny is a logger, but he lost his job because of spotted owls. The numbers of them are dropping & it is all because of loggers cutting down the trees. One day Lennys son brings home a spotted owlet, but they think he is a bardowl! The family

There's an Owl in the Shower by Jean Craighead George was published five years after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finally put the Northern Spotted Owl on the threatened species list. The result was a well-needed restriction on logging in old growth forests, further forcing change in logging

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practices.

Borden, the son of an unemployed logger, finds an owl chick and takes him home. The owl is a spotted owl, but at such a young age, spotted owls can be easily misidentified. Borden and his father take in the owl and begin to raise it — against federal and state regulations.

There's a lot of anger among the main characters and a lot of threatened violence — against the environmentalists and the owls themselves. Though understandable, the characterization seemed heavy handed many times. Craighead George's characters are usually more subtly crafted but here she seems to have been in a hurry to get through the book.

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This was a cute story about saving the Spotted Owl or any endangered species. This was one of my children's books and I don't even know if they ever read it. I liked that the author even researched about the Spotted Owl.

Borden's father loses his job because of the spotted owl. He decides he is

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going to kill the owl and save his father's job. During the course of the book Borden learns about how cutting the trees down has also caused other damage to the environment. It is nice to see that in a book for children to help them understand how what we as humans do can actually hurt not only animals but also the human race.

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In the past I have read and loved books written by this author, so was looking forward to There's an Owl in the Shower. I was very disappointed. While Jean Craighead George's descriptions of the animals in their natural environment were still fairly good, the stereotypical bad/good humans and the

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preachy environmental message really spoiled it for me. Too heavy-handed and agenda-driven, I did not enjoy this as much as I wanted.

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