Tea for a Bluebird

Hang On To Your Hat! Tea for a Bluebird, by Daisy Nell,invites you to a tea party in the parlor of a Boston home in 1896. This fictional story is based on the true history of the start of an essential chapter in the movement to protect wild birds. In the 1890's an international fashion craze of using staggering amounts of bird feathers in ladies' hats was causing terrible harm to bird populations. Learning of this practice, a concerned bird lover named Harriet Hemenway was outraged! She invited her women friends to her house for tea so they could put their hatless heads together to determine the best way to end this cruelty.Author Daisy Nell, from Essex, Massachusetts, has invented a serendipitous scenario at one of the tea parties, where things didn't go quite as planned. The quick thinking of a young neighbor girl brings calm to the chaos—and with no feathers ruffled! This "flight of fancy" is charmingly brought to life by illustrator George Ulrich. Read more