A Read Michigan Notable Book and Winner of the Michigan Reading Association’s Great Lakes’ Great Book Award When a young boy makes a foolish decision to steal a great horned owlet from its nest, a licensed animal rehabilitator and his family take the owl in to care for him and train him to reenter the wild. While the family has rehabilitated many animals over the years, Jackson the owl proves to be like no other. This is the stunningly illustrated remarkable true story of Jackson the owl and the first in the Hazel Ridge Farm series, by wife and husband author and illustrator team Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen and Gijsbert (Nick) van Frankenhuyzen, who share their personal accounts of wildlife rehabilitation that teach children a respect for animals and their natural habitats.