Book 2004
Boy Who Drew Birds
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- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Painters, juvenile literature
- Animal painting and illustration
- Painters, united states
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?