The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12)

by Jacqueline Davies

Other authorsMelissa Sweet (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 2004

Status

Available

Call number

JNF 598 DAV

Call number

JNF 598 DAV

Barcode

2756

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?

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