THE BOY WHO DREW BIRDS A Story of John James Audubon by Jacqueline Davies Illustrated by Melissa Sweet

Here we have a beautifully illustrated tale of young John James Audubon, a boy who loved birds and was determined to study them not in books, but in the wild. In the fall of 1804, he was determined to learn if the small birds near his Pennsylvania home were really going to come back in the spring... (hardcover, Houghton Mifflin, 32 pages)