A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home

✍ Scribed by Henry Cole

• Publisher: HarperCollins;Katherine Tegen Books
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0061704121

✦ Synopsis

SUMMARY:
A beautifully illustrated novel about a mouse, her friendship with Audubon's apprentice, and her search for home. Beneath the crackled and faded painting of a horse, underneath the worn and dusty floorboards of the dining room, lives Celeste, a mouse who spends her days weaving baskets, until one day she is thrust into the world above. Here Celeste encounters danger—and love—unlike any she's ever imagined. She dodges a hungry cat and witnesses the brutality of hunting for the first time. She makes friends with a singing thrush named Cornelius, a talkative osprey named Lafayette, and Joseph, Audubon's young apprentice. All the while, Celeste is looking for a new home. Is her home in the toe of a worn boot? Nestled in Joseph's pocket? Or in the dollhouse in the attic, complete with mouse-size furniture perfect for Celeste? In the end, Celeste discovers that home is really the place deep inside her heart, where friendships live.