A Nest for Celeste
A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · February 21, 2012
A fanciful history lesson for middle graders, featuring a charming mouse named Celeste.
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- Who it’s for
- A fanciful mouse story brings home, friendship, and nineteenth-century natural history into view.
- Themes
- Finding a place to call home, Friendship, Nineteenth-century history and art
- Genres
- Small Pets, Historical Fiction, Art & Architecture
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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?
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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.
Home, Art, History
A fanciful mouse story brings home, friendship, and nineteenth-century natural history into view.
Come here for
- A mouse’s search for home, told with warmth and a fanciful historical touch
- Hundreds of black-and-white drawings alongside a short novel
Expect
- Friendship, art, and the question of what makes a home
- A glimpse of nineteenth-century plantation life and Audubon’s bird paintings
Where it sits
| Small Pets | 73% |
|---|---|
| Historical Fiction | 70% |
| Art & Architecture | 43% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action & Adventure
- Bird Stories
- Farm Animal Stories
- Small Pets
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- Pet Stories
- Pig Stories
- Art & Architecture
- Alternative Family Stories
- Authors
- Henry Cole
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- February 21, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Finding a place to call home · Friendship · Nineteenth-century history and art
- Reading lane
- Action & Adventure