An award-winning poet evokes the wonder of discovering a mouse's nest, a fox's den, a raccoon's house, a hollow tree, and all the other cozy nesting places of familiar animals
Aileen Lucia Fisher was an American writer of more than a hundred children's books, including poetry, picture books in verse, prose about nature and America, biographies, Bible themed books, plays, and articles for magazines and journals. Her poems have been anthologized many times and are frequently used in textbooks. In 1978 she was awarded the second National Council of Teachers of English Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.