Owl Sees Owl

For my second book review journal book I read "Owl Sees Owl" by Laura Godwin. The book is very cool and extremely aesthetically pleasing. The book contains very few words, usually only 3-4 per page and instead focuses heavily on the artwork to tell the story. The illustrations in the book are absolutely gorgeous and make it very easy to follow the story even with very few words. The books follows reverso poetry in its writing style and ends on the same text that it begins on. It tells the story of a baby owl who leaves the safety of his nest and goes on an adventure of his own for the first time one night. The story seems to capture the excitement of the baby owl flying on his own for the first time with the simple phrase "Soar, glide, swoop, swoosh" and portrays a feeling of amazement and adventure. As simple as the book is its as if you can really feel the excitement and wanderlust that the baby owl feels as he takes off into the unknown. When the owl gets to the pond he sees his reflection "owl sees owl" and gets scared and turns back where the poem reverses itself where it ends on the same phrase it began on "home, mama, brother, sister" I think the style that the book is written in also really helps to portray the feeling of the book as it starts of in the "comfort zone" and goes more and more into the unknown before reaching a climax of excitement and wonder and then fleeing quickly back to that comfort zone.  I think in a way myself and many people can relate to this book as I think everyone has an inborn sense of wanderlust whether great or small we all want to explore a little bit. I adored the illustrations in this book and thought that  even if there hadn't been any text in this book you would have known what was happening in the story. The illustrations were just that well done and that specific all the while retaining their absolute beauty and sense of excitement and wonder.