The Boy Who Drew Birds, A Story of John James Audubon

The Boy Who Drew Birds, A Story of John James Audubon 

John James Audubon was a boy who loved the out-of-doors more than the in. He was a boy who believed in studying birds in nature, not just from books. And, in the fall of 1804, he was a boy determined to learn if the small birds nesting near his Pennsylvania home really would return the following spring.
For centuries, the disappearance and return of small birds each fall and spring was a mystery. Where did they spend the winter? And when they did return, did they really fly back to the very same nests?
This book reveals how the youthful Audubon pioneered a technique essential to our understanding of birds. Capturing the early passion of America's greatest painter of birds, this story will leave young readers listening intently for the call of birds near their own homes. 

• Age Level = 10-14
• Book Author = Jacqueline Davies
• Book Material = Hardback
• Book Publisher = Clarion Books
• Copyright = c2004
• Grade Level = 4-7th
• Illustrator = Melissa Sweet
• Condition = New