# I Know How to Draw an Owl

**Author:** Hilary Horder Hippely
**Grade range:** Grades K–5
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 0
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780823456666`
**ISBN-10:** `0823456668`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/i-know-how-to-draw-an-owl
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Belle draws the best owl in class, but she doesn’t say why: she sees them in the park, where she and her mother sleep. Belle and her mother used to have a house, a table, and chairs, a home like any of Belle’s classmates’. But things changed. Now, they curl up each night in a blanket nest in their old blue car, with their things packed in around them. The first night was hard, but they’ve never been alone: their friend the owl has always been nearby, hooting in its tree, looking out for them. Belle longs to catch sight of it, and one night, she finally does. That’s how she learned to draw an owl. No one knows that story. But when a new boy comes to school, a boy whose car looks like Belle’s, a boy who looks lost and scared, it’s Belle’s turn to watch over someone. Hilary Horder Hippely’s s

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