Get to know these rare and beautiful birds in this warmly illustrated non-fiction picture book.

The little girl in this book has never seen a barn owl, but one day her grandpa puts a nest-box high in the old oak tree. They wait and they wait until one spring night, just as the sky goes pink, a pale face looks out of it, then takes off towards them...

"Foreman's watercolour illustrations are luminous." - The Bookseller