The boy who drew birds
Subtitle: a story of John James Audubon
By: by Jacqueline Davies ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.
Contributors: Sweet, Melissa.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Audubon, John James, -- 1785-1851 -- Juvenile literature; Ornithologists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Animal painters -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Description: As a boy, John James Audubon loved to watch birds. In 1804, at the age of eighteen, he moved from his home in France to Pennsylvania. There he took a particular interest in peewee flycatchers. While observing these birds, John James became determined to answer a pair of two-thousand-year-old questions: Where do small birds go in the winter, and do they return to the same nest in the spring?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.