The Heavenly Tenants is a children's fantasy novel by William Maxwell.
The Marvell family farm in Wisconsin is visited by the living signs of the zodiac; meanwhile, the constellations associated with them disappear from the sky.
[1] The story was illustrated by Ilonka Karasz and published by Harper & Brothers in 1946.
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