A NEST FOR CELESTE: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home. Copyright © 2010 by Henry Cole. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Cole, Henry, date

A nest for Celeste / Henry Cole.—1st ed.

      p. cm.

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.

ISBN 978-0-06-170410-9 (trade bdg.: alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0-06-170411-6 (lib. bdg.: alk. paper)

[1. Mice—Fiction. 2. Mason, Joseph, 1807-1883—Childhood and youth—Fiction. 3. Human-animal relationships—Fiction. 4. Artists—Fiction. 5. Home—Fiction. 6. Audubon, John James, 1785-1851—Fiction. 7. New Orleans (La.)—History—19th century—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.C67728Nes     2010        2009011813
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EPub Edition © January 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199200-1

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