Wren's Nest

Wren's Nesticon

by Heidi E.Y. Stemple

Publisher
Familius
Publication
Mar 12, 2024
Format
Hardback
Illustrated
No
Price
17.99
Dimensions
8.5 x 11 in
ISBN
9781641707527
Pages
32
Age
4 - 6 years
Category
Character Development

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LanguageIndonesianCountryIndonesiaAgent-BuyerBADAN PENGEMBANGAN DAN PEMBINAAN BAHASA (Ministry of Education Indonesia)

Description

When Wren was born, Grandpa put a wren box just outside the window of her tiny room.   When she was a baby, the wrens sang her to sleep. Each spring, Wren and Grandpa watched the birds bringing sticks and grasses to the box and listened when the babies squealed for their dinner. When Wren's family moves to the city, she misses birdwatching in the meadow. Their new home has an extra bedroom, but the only birds she can see are pigeons. Lots of pigeons. But when Wren and her grandpa discover a phoebe nest in the rafters above their porch, they get a front-row seat to the miracle of new life—both in nature and in their own home. With ecological backmatter about what to do if you find a bird's nest and other birdwatching resources, this gorgeously illustrated picture book explores the sweet relationship between grandfather and granddaughter, as well as the anticipation of a new arrival.

Author(s)

Heidi E.Y. Stemple

Heidi didn't want to be a writer when she grew up. In fact, after she graduated from college, she became a probation officer in Florida. It wasn't until she was 28 years old that she gave in and joined the family business, publishing her first short story in a book called Famous Writers and Their Kids Write Spooky Stories. The famous writer was her mom, author Jane Yolen. Since then, she has published more than thirty-five books and numerous short stories and poems, mostly for children. Heidi lives and writes on a big old farm in Massachusetts that she shares with one very large cat who lives inside, a dozen deer, a family of bears, three coyotes, two bobcats, a gray fox, tons of birds, and some very fat groundhogs who live outside. Once a year she calls owls for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count.

Illustrator(s)

Eugenia Nobati

Eugenia Nobati was born in 1968, Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she still lives with her family, two cats and a dog. Started as a Graphic Designer in 1990, but in 1997, she decided to dedicate her time exclusively to illustration, mostly to children's books. Eugenia has worked with all kinds of stuff, from postage stamps to packaging to character designs for animation, always in her own style. Over the years, her work has been published in nine countries and more than forty books. She was selected among 16 illustrators, representing Argentina in Bratislava's Bienal 2012. In 2014, she was recognised by ALIJA, Argentina's section of IBBY, for the best illustrated book

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