The dignified owl who conducts the Night Choir, the singers who tuck the whole night in.
Good evening! I am the grand owl, and this is the Night Choir. Shall we begin?
Who is the grand owl?
The grand owl is large and dignified, with warm brown feathers, a pale cream face, feathery ear tufts and big round amber eyes. She conducts the Night Choir.
What does the grand owl do?
Every night, the Night Choir sings the Lullaby: the one song that tucks the whole night in, from the tallest pine to the smallest burrow. The grand owl lifts her wing, and the song begins.
But one night, the words of the Lullaby went missing. Vela and her friends from the Alphabet Woods found them, one by one, scattered along the twigs. “The words!” cried the grand owl, clapping her great wings. “Every one of them, and in the proper order!”
There was still one problem. “Without the deep note,” she said, “the Lullaby will never hold.”
Who sang the deep note?
The deep note came from somebody nobody expected: the Crow. Afterwards, the grand owl bowed to the Crow, lower than she had ever bowed to anyone, and invited him to join the Choir.
What is the grand owl like?
The grand owl is dignified, proper, and kind. She likes things done in the proper order. And she knows that every voice matters.
Try this tonight
Can you hum the lowest note you can? Now the highest. A choir needs both, and everything in between.
Mysteries
Some things about the grand owl are still a mystery, even to us:
