Davies, Jacqueline

The boy who drew birds : a story of John James Audubon - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references. by Jacqueline Davies ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.

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?

ISBN: 0618243437

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Audubon, John James, -- 1785-1851 -- Juvenile literature.
Ornithologists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Animal painters -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.