TY - BOOK AU - Davies,Jacqueline AU - Sweet,Melissa TI - The boy who drew birds: a story of John James Audubon SN - 0618243437 AV - QL31.A9 D38 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Co. KW - Audubon, John James, KW - Ornithologists KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - Animal painters KW - Picture books for children N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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? ER -