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Slaymaker, Melissa Eskridge.
BOTTLE HOUSES : THE CREATIVE WORLD OF GRANDMA PRISBREY
New York : Henry Holt, 2004.
IL K-3
ISBN 0805071318
Tressa Prisbrey was a very frugal woman.  Do you know what frugal means?  Well, she didn't believe in wasting anything.  And she loved bottles.  She would go the local dump and bring home lots of bottles and anything else she felt she could reuse.  But what to do with the bottles?  Well, Tressa had a plan.  She'd build a house!  What?  A house made out of bottles?  Is that possible?  Find out in Bottle Houses : the Creative World of Grandma Prisbrey.
Non fiction SUBJECTS:       Prisbrey, Tressa.
                        Artists.
                        Women -- Biography.

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