# The Owls — Nonsense Books character guide

> The Owls in Nonsense Books by Edward Lear.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the old Owls, the Seven Young Owls

**First appearance:** 0091-one-hundred-nonsense-pictures-and-rhymes

## Who they are

Owls who appear in a nonsense rhyme.

## In the story

### [The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nonsense_books_se/chapters/the-history-of-the-seven-families-of-the-lake-pipple-popple)

The family of two old Owls and seven young Owls; the young Owls fall into a well and drown.

### [Chapter II: The Seven Families](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nonsense_books_se/chapters/chapter-ii-the-seven-families)

A family of two old Owls and seven young Owls.

### [Chapter III: The Habits of the Seven Families](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nonsense_books_se/chapters/chapter-iii-the-habits-of-the-seven-families)

The Owls catch mice and make sago-puddings from them.

### [Chapter IV: The Children of the Seven Families Are Sent Away](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nonsense_books_se/chapters/chapter-iv-the-children-of-the-seven-families-are-sent-away)

The old Owls instruct their children to tear a mouse into seven slices and eat cheerfully.

### [Chapter VIII: The History of the Seven Young Owls](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nonsense_books_se/chapters/chapter-viii-the-history-of-the-seven-young-owls)

The seven young Owls set out on a journey, but all drown after falling into a well.

### [Chapter XIII: Of What Became of the Parents of the Forty-Nine Children](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nonsense_books_se/chapters/chapter-xiii-of-what-became-of-the-parents-of-the-forty-nine-children)

Two old Owls, parents of the seven young Owls.

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