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The boy who drew birds : a story of John James Audubon
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The boy who drew birds : a story of John James Audubon

Author: Jacqueline Davies; Melissa Sweet
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : Biography : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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?
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
Juvenile literature
Biography Juvenile literature
Biography
Additional Physical Format: Print version:
Davies, Jacqueline, 1962-
Boy who drew birds.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004
(DLC) 2004000971
(OCoLC)54111148
Named Person: John James Audubon; John James Audubon
Material Type: Biography, Document, Juvenile audience, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Jacqueline Davies; Melissa Sweet
ISBN: 9780547349558 0547349556
OCLC Number: 769124378
Description: 1 online resource : col. ill., col. map.
Responsibility: by Jacqueline Davies ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.

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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?

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