The reader decides the course of action when you and your friend Sally encounter a beautiful tree that is home to many different types of owls with magical powers.

While journeying by caravan from Tibet to India, the young reader comes face to face with dangers ranging from bandits to the Abominable Snowman and encounters the mysterious secrets of the ages.

During a hike through the nearby woods, the reader stumbles upon a mysterious tree inhabited by magical, talking owls, in a multiple-plot fantasy adventure.

An enchanting tale of a young boy's efforts to save a magical tree, winner of the 1997 Smarties Prize. The owl tree is not like any tree Joe has ever seen. It's huge and leafy and shivers at times like a person; it even seems to speak. Granny Diamond once saw an owl perched among its branches and she has loved the tree ever since. It means the world to her. But her neighbour, Mr Rock, wants to cut it down. Why does he dislike the owl tree so much? Does the tree have a secret to tell Joe? And how can he, aboy too scared even to climb the tree, be the one to save it?