The Castle Ghost

This delightful children's picture book tells the story of a circus ringmaster who has an owl that he bought as a baby from a zoo, in the hope that it would rid him of mice that eat the circus animal food. To protect it from the circus cat, the owl has to grow up in a cage and never learns how to fly. The gardener of a rich castle owner buys the owl, thinking it will rid the castle of the plague of mice that his master thinks is a ghost. Left alone in the castle attic, the owl's lonely hoots are mistaken for another ghost, more troublesome than the first. A mouse befriends the owl and, together, they fulfil their dreams.