Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien stories with a lesson SPARKLERS AND SWOOPERS

SPARKLERS AND SWOOPERS

Viewers follow the unfurling of an exotic woodland plant through the actions and invented language of beautifully coiffed and clothed insects

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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien stories with a lesson SPARKLERS AND SWOOPERSOn Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien adopted Wesley, a baby barn owl with an injured wing who could not have survived in the wild. Over the next nineteen years, O'Brien studied Wesley's strange habits with both a tender heart and a scientist's eye and provided a mice only diet that required her to buy the rodents in bulk (28,000 over the owl's lifetime). She watched him turn from a helpless fluff ball into an avid com municator with whom