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...LITTLE OWL, by Reiner Zimnik, illustrated by Hanne Axmann (Atheneum; $3.50), is a translation from German of a tale about a peeping-owl. The illustrations convey with charm and mystery a mocking view of the foolish fears that isolate adults from the pleasant world of children and small animals...
Presumably, the Observer is also needed by people who want a history of golf, pictures of a tame owl and a two-ton ball of twine, old Roman verse (a stanza from Lucilius), and a Page One story about Chinese cookery in London...
...Barefoot Boy named Billy. Moral: "It is a Brave thing to Be a Bee." Poet Louis Untermeyer uses a mere 179 words to embolden his readers in One and One and One. Plot: a cat without a home meets a dog without a bone. Both join a wise old owl and a friendly bear, and they discover...
...written and performed by four Oxford-and Cambridge-educated Britons in their 20s, a quartet of high-IQ imps. Physically and intellectually these scholar-clowns could stock an eclectic aviary. Alan Bennett, a blond horn-rimmed owl, lectures on medieval history at Oxford. Jonathan Miller, who looks like an elongated ostrich and seems to be acrobattling his way through an imaginary soccer game, is a neuropathologist. Peter Cook, an unblinkingly phlegmatic penguin in tweeds, is a writer and editor. And Dudley Moore, who nestles like a pouter pigeon at the piano, is a musicologist, equally adept at organ and harpsichord...
...only flaw in the Bennett legend is that he did not get the mausoleum he wanted. This was to be a statue, 200 feet high, in the shape of an owl (Bennett liked owls). It was to be far grander than Grant's tomb on Riverside Drive (Bennett did not like Grant). But Architect Stanford White, who was supposed to design the bird, got himself shot by Harry Thaw. Bennett lost interest, and Manhattan lost an owl...