Where Is Owl's Scarf?: A Lift-the-Flap Book

by Brandy Cooke, Valentina Belloni (Illustrator)

Overview

Help Owl find his scarf in this adorable lift-the-flap book!

Owl is getting ready to sleep.

He’s tucked in, snug as a bug.

But something is missing—his scarf!

Where can it be?

Owl is looking for his scarf. Is it between the branches? No, that’s Chipmunk! Is it behind the pumpkins? No, that’s Fox! Where can Owl’s scarf be? Little ones can lift the flaps in this adorable book to reveal cute forest critters, including a chipmunk, a fox, a deer, crows, a raccoon, a frog . . . and finally a turkey, who has Owl's scarf! The large, easy-to-lift flaps are perfect for parents and children to share.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781499801767
Publisher:	little bee books
Publication date:	07/26/2016
Pages:	16
Sales rank:	441,451
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	1 - 4 Years

About the Author

Brandy Cooke is a children's book editor and author who loves to cook up stories. After growing up in Connecticut she moved to New York City, where she currently resides.

Valentina Belloni is an illustrator from Cuneo, a small town near Turin, Italy. She studied juvenile illustration at the European Institute of Design in Turin. She is also the illustrator of Butterfly's Surprise, a lift-the-flap book on our Spring 2016 list.

Editorial Reviews

07/11/2016
Ready for bed but missing his scarf, Owl looks for his lost item in this lift-the-flap board book. Readers who skip past a few initial questions of logic (Aren’t owls mostly nocturnal? Should Owl really have a scarf near that lit candle in his tree hollow home?) can still enjoy the ensuing guessing game as they lift flaps shaped like hay bales and piles of pumpkins, uncovering various animals, but not the scarf. Belloni uses bright colors and textures of grass, leaf, crepe paper, and paisley to create a friendly nighttime farm landscape, but the head-scratching ending (Turkey, a previously unseen character, is wearing the scarf for some reason) falls flat. Ages 3–6. (July)

Publishers Weekly

2016-08-02
Owl searches this lift-the-flap farm for his missing scarf. "Where can it be? Is it between the branches?" asks the Q-and-A text. Under a flap, readers see the answer, and the text reads: "No! This is Chipmunk, gathering some acorns. Chip! Chip!" The pattern continues on each double-page spread as Owl searches behind bales of hay, pumpkins, corn stalks, garbage cans, and cattails "by the stream" to discover a variety of critters who don't have his scarf. The missing accessory is finally found around Turkey's neck. Belloni employs realistic textures in the art to create veined leaves and fuzzy raccoons. However, her cartoons are too stiff at times, and the glitter on Turkey's feathers and Owl's scarf in the final image seems an out-of-place gimmick. Some of the flaps offer clues as to which animal is underneath, while others do not, and this lack of consistency is a real liability in a book for this audience. Board books with flaps and set on a farm have been done more successfully many times before. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews