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A Nest for Celeste

Name: A Nest for Celeste
ISBN: 9780061704123

A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home

Henry Cole

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · February 21, 2012

Reading lane: Small Pets

A fanciful history lesson for middle graders, featuring a charming mouse named Celeste.

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Why This Clicks

Home, Art, History

A fanciful mouse story brings home, friendship, and nineteenth-century natural history into view.

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A mouse’s search for home, told with warmth and a fanciful historical touch
Hundreds of black-and-white drawings alongside a short novel

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Friendship, art, and the question of what makes a home
A glimpse of nineteenth-century plantation life and Audubon’s bird paintings

Book Details

Authors: Henry Cole
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: February 21, 2012
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Small Pets · Bird Stories
Reading lane: Small Pets

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Action & Adventure
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A fanciful history lesson for middle graders, featuring a charming mouse named Celeste. Celeste is a mouse who is looking for a home. Is it nestled in the toe of a warm boot? In the shirt pocket of Celeste’s new friend Joseph? Or is home the place deep inside Celeste’s heart, where friendships live? Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of black-and-white drawings, A Nest for Celeste is a short novel that tells the story a mouse living in the 1800s and his friendship with John James Audubon’s young apprentice. While enjoying this sweet amd appealing story, young readers will also learn about nineteenth-century plantation life and the famous naturalist who was known for his paintings of birds and American wildlife.