Sumptuous illustrations and energetic (but not complicated) text are the order of the day when looking for great books to read with 2 year-olds, and WOW, said the Owl meets the brief to perfection.
Subtitled A BOOK ABOUT COLOURS, this brand new book from Tim Hopgood could not be simpler – a little owl is curious about what the world looks like in the daytime. And it is astonishingly beautiful, with each new moment in the day bringing the little owl a new perspective on what it is like to see the world (including ‘her’ tree) in colour.
Each illustration has so much to explore that a patient parent or caregiver can happily spend twenty minutes with a toddler reading the story, while the text is equally well suited to a quick couple of minutes just before bed.
Tim Hopgood has recently won an ’emerging’ illustrator award in the UK, and the inference I (excitedly) make from this is that Tim will be producing many, many more wonderful books in the future.
Elissa Milne 
It sounds just fantastic: like the best children’s books, the concept is deceptively simple, but encodes quite a bit of science and quite a bit of expanding a child’s worldview, empathy and imagination. How does the world look to someone else?
Great review of a really cool-sounding book… Guess I’ll keep it in mind for the grandkids, though, ‘cos I doubt I could get the teens to sit still for me to read it to them!