The Boy Who Drew Birds

Synopsis
Young John James could skate, hunt, and ride better than most boys. He could fiddle, he could flirt, he could fence. But what he liked to do best, from sunup to sundown, was watch birds. And so he does, in this strange new world called America, where John James is both a foreigner and alone. Soon he befriends a pair of phoebe birds and finds himself asking some ancient, unanswered questions: Where do birds go in the winter? Will the same birds return to the same nest in the spring? John James employs frontier ingenuity to prove once and for all that phoebe birds return to their nests each spring.

Awards

• Nominated for the Young Hoosier Book Award
• Junior Library Guild Selection
• Nominated for a Capitol Choice Award
• Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12
• John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers
• New York Public Library's Best Books

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