The boy who drew birds : a story of John James Audubon / by Jacqueline Davies ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.

0618243437
9780618243433

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004.

English

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 26 cm.

QL31.A9 D38 2004

598/.092 B

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?

Includes bibliographical references.

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