A Nest for Celeste - Henry Cole 电子书mobi+epub
Product details
Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Lexile Measure: 730 (What's this?)
Series: Nest for Celeste (Book 1)
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books; Reprint edition (February 21, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061704121
ISBN-13: 978-0061704123
A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home Paperback – February 21, 2012
by Henry Cole (Author, Illustrator)
https://www.amazon.com/Nest-Celeste-Story-Inspiration-Meaning/dp/0061704121
Product details
Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Lexile Measure: 730 (What's this?)
Series: Nest for Celeste (Book 1)
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books; Reprint edition (February 21, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061704121
ISBN-13: 978-0061704123
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.
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2010: Celeste is not your average mouse. She lives alone, quietly weaving baskets with creative flair under the floor boards of the Oakley Plantation. However, Celeste’s world turns upside down with the arrival of the great naturalist John James Audubon and his assistant Joseph, who have come to study and paint the birds of the Louisiana bayou. Their arrival coincides with Celeste’s sudden displacement from her home below to a guest room upstairs. There she watches young Joseph struggle to create the backgrounds for Audubon’s bird paintings. As the two homesick souls strike up a friendship, the mouse secretly puts her artistic skills to good use; she simultaneously helps Joseph improve his compositions while aiding the wounded birds that Audubon captures for his studies. Nearly every page of author-illustrator Henry Cole's fine novel combines text and remarkable drawn images to tell the story of a mouse in need of a home of her own from the tiny creature's unique vantage point. Henry Cole’s A Nest for Celeste is a perfect choice for middle readers who enjoy animal adventure tales with a twist. --Lauren Nemroff
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From School Library Journal
Grade 3–5—At Oakley Plantation near New Orleans, temporary home to naturalist John James Audubon and his assistant, Joseph Mason, lives a mouse named Celeste. Industrious and sweet, she forages for food in the dining room and weaves baskets of grass. Unfortunately, she is harassed by resident rats, and, attempting to assuage their hunger, she is trapped by a cat and unable to return to her nook under the floorboards. A chase brings her to Mason's room and there develops a friendship between the homesick apprentice and the little mouse. It unfolds that Audubon is no PETA advocate—he hires hunters to shoot birds so that he can pose them for his drawings. Some of the story is devoted to Celeste's persuading captured birds to pose of their own volition and so save themselves. The theme espoused by the book's subtitle is not well developed, however. Celeste does search for a home, and readers are shown the two naturalists drawing and feeling frustrated when the art does not come easily, but Cole's description of the emotions inherent in the theme does not evoke them in readers. The story's bittersweet conclusion is similarly unsatisfying. What sets the book apart are the charming pencil illustrations that appear throughout, sometimes filling whole pages—a story about making art, full of art.—Lisa Egly Lehmuller, St. Patrick's Catholic School, Charlotte, NC
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From Booklist
Primarily known as a picture-book artist, Cole now offers a chapter book that devotes only a little more space to text than to illustrations. Celeste, a kindly little mouse, lives below the dining-room floorboards in a rural Louisiana home. Though initially bullied by two rats, Celeste’s lot improves when John James Audubon comes to stay at the house, teach the owner’s daughter to dance, and paint local birds. Joseph, Audubon’s young assistant, befriends Celeste, and her warm friendships with Joseph, a thrush, and an osprey make up most of the tale. When Celeste has harrowing encounters with the rats, the household cat, and a storm-swollen creek, her friends are there to help when mere pluck is not enough. A historical afterword comments on Audubon and Joseph. The episodic story is nicely told, but the softly shaded pencil drawings bring it to life through Cole’s exceptional ability to imbue animals with personality without making them cartoonlike. A good choice for young readers seeking longer books. Grades 2-5. --Carolyn Phelan --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Henry Cole is the illustrator of many beloved books for children, including his own Jack’s Garden, On Meadowview Street, and A Nest for Celeste. Brambleheart was inspired by the heap of discarded treasures in the woods behind his childhood farm. You can visit Henry online at
www.henrycole.net.
Henry Cole is the illustrator of many beloved books for children, including his own Jack’s Garden, On Meadowview Street, and A Nest for Celeste. Brambleheart was inspired by the heap of discarded treasures in the woods behind his childhood farm. You can visit Henry online at
www.henrycole.net.
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