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Amazon.com Review A Nest for Celeste is a perfect choice for middle readers who enjoy animal adventure tales with a twist. --Lauren Nemroff 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

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Author

Cole, Henry

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061704109

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.82 / 5 (2,228 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14