Owls in the Family

By: Farley Mowat

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Every child needs to have a pet. No one could argue with that.

But what happens when your pet is an owl, and your owl is terrorizing the neighbourhood?

In Farley Mowat’s exciting children’s story, a young boy’s pet menagerie—which includes crows, magpies, gophers and a dog—grows out of control with the addition of two cantankerous pet owls. The story of how Wol and Weeps turn the whole town upside down is warm, funny, and bursting with adventure and suspense.

This audiobook is expertly read by Paul Heitsch, with audio engineering by Blake Rook. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©1961, 1989 Farley Mowat (P)2025 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

FINALLY Farley Mowat!

I have been begging and nagging Audible.com to include Farley Mowat books in their library for over a decade!

Ordeal by Ice: The Search for the Northwest Passage (1960)
The Polar Passion: The Quest for the North Pole (1967)
Tundra: Selections from the Great Accounts of Arctic Land Voyages (1973)

People of the Deer (1950)

Lost in the Barrens (1956)

The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be (1957)

Owls in the Family (With: Robert Frankenberg) (1961)

The Curse of the Viking Grave (1966)

The Desperate People (1957)

The Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Mission of a N.A. Salvage Tug (1958)

Coppermine Journey: An Account of Great Adventure Selected from the Journals of Samuel Hearne (1958)

The Black Joke (With: ) (1962)

Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves (1963)

Canada North Now: The Great Betrayal (1967)

The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float (1969)

Sibir: My Discovery of Siberia (1970)

A Whale for the Killing (1972)

Wake of the Great Sealers (1973)

The Serpent’s Coil (1974)

The Regiment (1974)

The Snow Walker (1975)

This Rock within the Sea (1976)

And No Birds Sang (With: ) (1979)

Sea of Slaughter (With: David Suzuki) (1984)

My Discovery of America (1985)

Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey / Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa (1987)

The New Founde Land (1989)

Rescue the Earth: Conversations with the Green Crusaders (1990)

Born Naked: The Early Adventures of the Author of Never Cry Wolf (1992)

My Father’s Son: Memories of War and Peace (1993)

Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World (1996)

The Farfarers: Before the Norse (1998)

Walking on the Land (2000)

High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey (2002)

No Man’s River (2004)

Bay of Spirits: A Love Story (2006)

Otherwise (2008)

Eastern Passage (2010)


With 38 Titles under his belt the "Canadian Mark Twain", has been virtually BLACKBALLED by Audible.com and only now has had TWO stand alone titles made available. Why? Who can say... but it is a black mark against American freedom to have this author continue to be barred from sharing Canadian Culture with the rest of the Audible community. I loved this book and it brought me back to my own childhood growing up on the prairies. As I'm sure it will bring a smile to your face and joy to your heart. God bless Farley Mowat and Canada. (minus the liberal party of course).

The author's perceptions of the owls' personalities and empties.

I really liked knowing more about owls. As always from Mowat, acknowledgement of the permissiveness of his upbringing, contrasts of his urban and rural experiences, and differences in the morality humans and animals he has known,