Cover of Boy Who Drew Birds

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?