To make sure everyone received an invitation in time, the birds sent the mighty eagle to deliver them, as he was the fastest of them. Most of the birds met right away to divide the tasks among themselves. One day, it was the birds’ turn to organize a splendid soiree. They got on really well, and they often threw marvelous parties to celebrate their friendship. On a tiny island in the green-blue Caribbean Sea, there was a large group of sociable animals living side by side. Read it.Do you know why you can see owls only at night? This extraordinary story took place a long, long time ago and it’s the reason why owls hide during the day. (And now that I’m writing these shorter reviews, I don’t have room to talk about what it means to me to see a middle-gradenovel with this storyline, and handled with such exuberance and charm.) This book is a sheer delight. By then, I knew I mustn’t spoil his experience of reading it for himself. Not only that, I was desperate to read it aloud to my partner – till I was halfway through, thatis. I picked up my copy on a whim,one Saturday in Oxford.
#GOOD NIGHT OWL READ ALOUD FULL#
Then there are the conversations we don’t see, or the secrets the girls don’t have access to, and Wolitzer and Goldberg Sloan take full advantage of the form to hide increasingly big twists in plain sight. Every revelation, every rebuke, every bright idea, every gap between one reply and another is like the electrical energy built up by a whirling, complex friction generator: electromagnetic energy, in fact, ever drawing you back for just one more page. Mutually furious at the whole idea, the two girls plot to disrupt things and keep the two men apart: “How do two people even have a relationship when they live 3,000 miles apart? Doesn’t that mean it’s all in their heads? How do we get it out of their heads?” And of course, whilst collaborating on this project, they must be scrupulously careful not to become friends themselves.Ī novel in email sounds slow and pensive, but they can be action movies in real time. As Bett explains to Avery, having broken into her father’s email, “Your dad + my dad met 3 months ago in Chicago at a building expo THEY ARE NOW A COUPLE.” To add insult to injury, the girls find they are being sent to the same ‘Summer Programme for Inquisitive Teens‘N’ Tweens’ to encourage them to form a sisterly bond.
Bett and Avery are twelve-year-olds who each live with their single Dads, each in their own idyllic world, private world.
They have been brought together by an emergency. I do a lot of reading at night when I’m supposed to be asleep but that’s not the worst thing in the world”). Noteveryone knows this”) and Avery in New York City (“I guess if I could be any animal it would be a night owl. The voices of To Night Owl From Dogfish zing at one another across the miles: Bett in California (“If I could be any animal I’dchoose a dogfish. They are all voice, and they are voice in full flight, tangling, clashing and dancing with another voice (or two, or three –in this book at least). If you are the kind of reader to be immediately seduced by a narrator’s voice the kind of reader who thrives on dialogue and has little time for descriptions of how the weather looked as Character A walked to the station as they contemplated Character B’s look over breakfast that morning if you love to read someone’s email over their shoulder on the train: epistolary novels will probably be up your street.
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