Owls aren’t Wise and Bats aren’t Blind by Warner Shedd, Harmony,
£15.19, ISBN 0609605291
ONCE upon a time there was a king so distraught at the death of his queen
that he drained the treasuries of his kingdom dry to make a building so
beautiful that everyone who saw it would remember his beloved. When the glorious
building was finished the king had a problem. His wife’s tomb appeared shabby
inside her own monument. “Take it away,” he commanded.
This cautionary tale warns that sometimes people need to be reminded of how
they got where they are. Naturalists may have…
