animal painters

A collection of poems that explore the life of Louis Fuertes and his sense of wonder when he painted living, flying birds in their natural habitats.

Provides an overview of the life of John James Audubon, discussing his childhood in Haiti and France, move to the United States, business and artistic ventures, conservation efforts, legacy, and more.

A biography of the nineteenth-century ornithologist, naturalist, and artist famous for his accurate paintings of birds and animals.

Provides an illustrated biography of the renowned American naturalist and artist John James Audubon, revealing his life's work studying and drawing the birds of the world.

In verse, follows a young Louis Agassiz Fuertes' dream to be a bird artist.

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

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".

Chronicles the life of John James Audubon, discussing his emigration to New York from France, his marriage to a wellborn English girl, travels across the Appalachians, observations of wilderness birds, creation of his famous book "The Birds of America", and other related topics.

John James Audubon, living in Pennsylvania far from his home and father in France, continues his obsession with birds, and comes up with the idea of banding the legs of his pewee bird friends to see if they will return in the spring to the nests they abandoned in the fall.