Citation:  The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon by Jacqueline Davies and Melissa Sweet, ill.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division, 2004.

ISBN: 9780618243433

Annotation: This book shows Audubon’s discovery that small birds migrate and return to the same nest which is called homing.  He also created the first banding of a bird.

Media: Sennelier watercolors and gouache, pen and ink, pencil and collage on Twinrocker handmade papers and antique papers

Personal Rating: 5Q/4P

Grade Level or Age Range: Grades 5-8

By: Joanne Maher July 26th, 2009

The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story Of John James Audubon by Jacqueline Davies & Melissa Sweet, ill. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Frenchman John James Audubon settles in Pennsylvania in the early 1800's, where he studies and draws small birds and tries to determine where they go during winter and if they return to the same nest in spring.

    -ISBN: 0618243437

    -Media: Watercolors, gouache, pen and ink, pencil, and collage

    -Rating: 4Q/4P

    - Curricular Connections: Grades 5-8, Science/Health, Biography

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Boy who drew birds, The:  a story of John James Audubon by Jacqueline Davies and Melissa Sweet, ill.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

ISBN-13: 9780618243433

ISBN-10: 0618243437

Illustrator: Melissa Sweet

Media: Color Pencil, watercolors and inks (Mixed Media)

5Q/4P

Artwork:  Illustrator Melissa Sweet displays her talent for collage and working with various media such as paper, pencil, gouache, watercolor, text, and found materials.

In some illustration watercolor is used along with pen and ink. Found materials like dried flowers are used along with hand made paper in collage.  Sweet incorporates pen and ink with her gouache watercolors, using homemade paper as a collage embellishment in her illustration artwork.

 KRF 6/22/09