On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.

Ollie Overwing is one of the best pitchers to ever flap into an Owls baseball jersey. Raised and taught to wing baseballs by his mother, Ollie's array of pitches is as pretty as his plumage. But when an umpire makes a stand, can Ollie follow the rules, or will he just continue to play good old-fashioned Owl Ball?

Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. "You think this baby is going to be like you, but it's not like you at all," she warns him. "This baby is an owl-baby." When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughter's needs. Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic self. Even in those times when Chouette's behaviors grow...

Fat Bat and Swoop the owl play a trick on Emily the cow but end up getting some of their own medicine.

Baby Owl agrees to read a story to Tiny Chick, but before he can start reading, Tiny Chick's numerous brothers, sisters, cousins, and friends join in and test Baby Owl's patience.

Good friends Owly and Wormy are disappointed when their new plant attracts fat, green, bug-like things, instead of butterflies, until a metamorphosis occurs.

After falling in love with an Abenaki Indian woman, a white great horned owl named Wabi transforms into a human being and has several trials and adventures while learning to adapt to his new life.

"When Ollie makes a new friend, Bea is not happy. Can she bat aside her hard feelings and learn to share her best friend with someone else?"--

Otulissa's compendium becomes a catchall guide to the history, life, and spirit of the tree and its heroes: Joss, brave messenger of legends; the brothers Ifghar and Ezylryb; Theo, the peaceful warrior; Gylfie, Digger, and Twilight's lives before they came to the tree; Strix Struma, Uglamore, Trader Mags, and others.

When Baby Hare mistakes Baby Owl for Santa Claus, it takes a visit from Saint Nick himself to straighten things out.