Book
A nest for Celeste : a story about art, inspiration, and the meaning of home
Call Number
- *J COLE (CEN)
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Katherine Tegen Books, c2010.
Physical Description
342 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Audience
008-012.
Summary
Celeste, a mouse longing for a real home, becomes a source of inspiration to teenaged Joseph, assistant to the artist and naturalist John James Audubon, at a New Orleans, Louisiana, plantation in 1821.
Subjects
- Animal painters > United States > Fiction.
- Naturalists > United States > Fiction.
- Birds > Pictorial works > Fiction.
- Home > Fiction.
- Human-animal relationships > Fiction.
- Mice > Fiction.
- New Orleans (La.) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
- Mason, Joseph, 1807-1883 > Childhood and youth > Fiction.
- Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 > Fiction.