Ms. Brenner creates an account of John James Audubon and his thirteen-year-old trainee/assistant, Joseph Mason, as they travel the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers for eighteen months. Together they observe, shoot, and draw birds. Using an unedited dairy of Audubon's, Ms. Brenner includes only actual incidents. Although the conversations are fictional, she based them on facts. I found this biography extremely interesting. Some readers may be upset how Audubon shoots or wounds some birds so he can draw them.
*Highly recommend for junior high and older.
Considerations/warnings: Mr. Audubon's dad had relations with a woman who was not his wife. The woman died soon after Audubon was born. His father's wife raised him with much love. Two swear words, killing birds in order to draw them, Mr. Audubon uses snuff, some people become drunk, Mr. Audubon becomes very friendly with a teenage girl whom he is tutoring (he is fired from this position because of his over-friendliness).
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