Perfect Nest by Friend Catherine
It's the perfect read-aloud A flustered cat is on the verge of crying fowl in a farmyard story that will crack kids up. Jack the cat is building the perfect nest. It's bound to attract the perfect chicken, who will lay the perfect egg, which will make the perfect omelet. And sure enough, a chicken shows up (Caramba ), but so do a duck (Sacre bleu ) and a goose (Great balls of fire ). Feathers get ruffled -- and Jack gets much more than breakfast -- in a funny tale rich in detail with a sweet final twist.
Catherine Friend and her partner of over twenty-five years raise sheep, ducks, and goats on their southeastern Minnesota farm. Her memoir, Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn, was an Insightout Bookclub bestseller and chronicles what happened to her relationship and her writing career when she agreed to help her partner start the farm. (It has a happy ending.) Hit by a Farm won a 2007 GCLS award and was a finalist for a 2006 Lambda Literary Award. Catherine has also written six books for children and was awarded a 2007 Loft/McKnight Fellow ship in Children's Literature. Catherine's interests range from writing, to reading about writing, to talking about writing, all the way to worrying about not writing. She was an economist, a project manager for a technical writing firm, taught writing for ten years, edited novels, and has taken some very odd jobs to avoid returning to the corporate world. In her spare time she plays the piano, paints, and hangs out with her partner, who makes her laugh every day.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780763624309 |
| ISBN 10 | 0763624306 |
| Title | Perfect Nest |
| Author | Friend Catherine |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2007-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| Prizes | Winner of Keystone to Reading Book Award (Primary) 2009, Winner of Delaware Diamonds Award (Grades K-2) 2007, Runner-up for Colorado Children's Book Award (Picture Book) 2009, Commended for Minnesota Book Award (Children's Literature) 2008, Commended for Texas 2x2 Reading List 2008, Short-listed for California Young Reader Medal (Primary) 2009, Short-listed for North Carolina Children's Book Award (Picture Book) 2009, Short-listed for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Grades K-3) 2009, Short-listed for Young Hoosier Book Award (Picture Book) 2010, Short-listed for Golden Sower Award (Primary) 2010 |
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