Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

Children's Fiction Birds

Berkeley's Barn Owl Dance

by (author) Tera Johnson

illustrated by Tania Howells

Publisher
Kids Can Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2008
Category
Birds, Dance, New Experience
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781554532636
    Publish Date
    Sep 2008
    List Price
    $16.95

Add it to your shelf

Where to buy it

Out of print

This edition is not currently available in bookstores. Check your local library or search for used copies at Abebooks.

Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 3 to 7
  • Grade: p to 2

Description

This is a lyrical and reassuring story about growing up and leaving the barn to dance on one's own.

At the biggest barn owl dance of the year, the Leave the Nest Fall Fest, keen dancer Berkeley shines as usual. Next moonrise, however, she and her fellow fledglings Bo and Bree must leave home. Though Berkeley is frightened, the winking, smiling, laughing moon lights her way. After thousands of silent wingbeats, she finds a new audience, and Flippity, Tappity, Clap Clap Clap, Berkeley's new barn dance begins.

Berkeley's Barn Owl Dance ushers children into an unseen animal world, while the young owl's journey will help them prepare to spread their wings and fly on their own.

About the authors

First-time author Tera Johnson likes to shake a tail feather, too, and enjoys tap-dancing with her own owlets, er, kids. When she isn't dancing or writing, Tera works at the Calgary Public Library and takes great pleasure in sharing storytime with young readers. Tera lives in Calgary, Alberta, with her husband and their two sons.

Tera Johnson's profile page

Tania Howells Tania Howells’s illustrations have wowed a crowd of commercial clients and also appeared in Chirp and Today’s Parent, among other publications. Berkeley’s Barn Owl Dance is her first picture book. Tania lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Tania Howells' profile page

Editorial Reviews

A warm story for the very young ...

Kirkus Reviews

Johnson has created a sweet, somewhat instructional story with lilting text that lends itself to being read aloud.

School Library Journal

Other titles by