Arnie and a House Full of Company Author:Margarete Sigl Corbo, Diane Marie Barras, Ryan Stuart Young (Illustrator) The wonderful, true, new story of Arnie, the famous talking starling. — When Margarete returns to Cape Cod with Arnie and the three cats after a ten-year absence, she finds the family homestead so overgrown she has to prune their way to the front door. The house that had been full of love and laughter is now a lifeless shell, except for the ghost... more » of Margarete's father in the bedroom. But, determined to make the house a home again, Margarete seeks out friends, old and new, animal and human -- Edelweiss the skunk, Manx the tailess squirrel, Ekaterina the dying countess, April the neighbor who lost her son. Soon Margarete and Arnie have filled their nest so well they begin to wonder whether there is such a thing as too much company.
The first Arnie book was a story of breaking away, of letting go of dreams gone bad. The new one is a story of putting down new roots in old places. It says you can go home again.
About the authors: Margarete Corbo and Diane Barras, friends for many years, both now live on Cape Cod. Their highly sucessful first book, Arnie, the Darling Starling, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a Reader's Digest Condensed Book.« less