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Rating:  - Features an easy, flowing narrative style
Written by Miriam E. Mason especially for young readers ages 8-12, and illustrated by Cathy Morrison, John Audubon: Young Naturalist is a biography of the adolescence and young adulthood of famous naturalist John Audubon, whose talent for exquisitely and accurately painting birds and learning about wildlife amassed a great legacy that endures proudly to this day. Chronicling him from his early youth to when he met and grew close to the woman he would later marry, John Audubon: Young Naturalist features an easy, flowing narrative style steeped heavily in painstaking research but also woven together with storytelling flair. Now in a new edition, John Audubon: Young Naturalist is twelfth in the Young Patriots series of biographies and especially recommended for grade school libraries.
Rating: - Highly recommended by Allbooks Reviews
Genre: Children's Fictional Biographies
Title: John Audubon, Young Naturalist
AUTHOR: Miriam E. Mason
Born Jean Jacques Audubon in the West Indies Island of Haiti, our hero was a true nature lover. Birds of all kinds fascinated him and occupied his time as a young lad. When his father, Captain Audubon moved the lad and his sister to France, Jean's life improved immensely. With a lovely step- mother to love and care for him, he continued his studies of the feathered creatures that filled his days. Eventually traveling to the US, he was determined to record every bird species in North America.
A fascinating account of the life of one of our Naturalist heroes, John James Audubon, written in the vocabulary of children, it is easy to understand and entertaining.
This book would make a wonderful first chapter book for any child being both educational and easy to understand.
Author, Miriam Mason has written more than 50 books for children during her career as an elementary school textbook consultant. She was recognized as Indiana Author of the Year in 1971, just before her death. The Young Patriot Series was devised from her original Childhood of Famous Americans Series and should be a part of every school library.
Highly recommended by Reviewer: Shirley Roe, Allbooks Reviews.
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