cover image Owl Puke [With The Pellet and Bone Sorting Tray]

Owl Puke [With The Pellet and Bone Sorting Tray]

Jane Hammerslough. Workman Publishing, $13.95 (92pp) ISBN 978-0-7611-3186-1

Budding naturalists (or perhaps sanitation engineers) can delight in digestive dissections in Owl Puke by Jane Hammerslough, which includes a genuine, bona fide owl pellet as well as a plastic bone-sorting tray with which kids can categorize the treasures found within. The accompanying paperback book proffers fascinating and funny owl info (an ""Almost Everybody Pukes"" section details various regurgitation habits across the animal kingdom), along with pictures, cartoon illustrations, a glossary and instructions for how to dig into the pellet itself.