The Heavenly Tenants

By William Maxwell, Ilonka Karasz (Illustrator)

The night before the Maxwells are to leave for three weeks in Virginia, father takes the children outside and shows them the different constellations that make up the zodiac. When no one comes to care for their animals while they are gone, the signs of the zodiac come to Earth and do it for them.


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