1785-1851

As a young boy first in Haiti and then in France, James Audubon delights in the wonders of nature but on arriving in the United States, he decides to become an artist and draw every bird in North America.

A biography of the riverboatman who, among other achievements, designed and built the first steamboat able to navigate the Mississippi River.

Fourteen-year-old Doug Swieteck faces many challenges, including an abusive father, a brother traumatized by Vietnam, suspicious teachers and police officers, and isolation, but when he meets a girl known as Lil Spicer, he develops a close relationship with her and finds a safe place at the local library.

A fictional journal in which Joseph Mason, the thirteen-year-old assistant to John James Audubon, describes the experiences he shared with his master during their eighteen month trip down the Mississippi studying and drawing the birds they found along the way.

Presents an edited version of the diaries of French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter John James Audubon.

An anthology of nature writings featuring John James Audubon's descriptions of the American wilderness and its plant and animal life, and contains excerpts from his journals, letters, and published works including profiles of wild birds and his journeys with the Osage Indians.

This is a selection of John James Audubon's paintings from his book "Birds of America," an ornithological pictorial book.

Recounts the life of John James Audubon, dreamer, vagabond, romantic, and genius, who traveled the backroads and bayous of the American wilderness searching out and studying birds. He was no amateur ornithologist; rather, he drew his birds from life, and his work always carried the line "drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon".

Celeste, a mouse longing for a real home, becomes a source of inspiration to teenaged Joseph, assistant to the artist and naturalist John James Audubon, at a New Orleans, Louisiana, plantation in 1821.