A sudden storm with wind, rain, thunder and lightning crashed down around Grandfather. He had been searching for healing plants he used to help his friends in a Northern Thailand village. All at once a tiny creature fell through the trees and landed at his feet. It was a pink, sightless one-week-old spotted owl that had been blown from his nest. Surely, the baby would not last long.

This is the story of his granddaughter, Mubu, who came to love the injured bird, to sleep with it, to feed it, and to talk it back to health. She named him Hoot.