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  • Bird Girl: Gene Stratton-Porter Shares Her Love of Nature with the World

Bird Girl: Gene Stratton-Porter Shares Her Love of Nature with the World

Author
Illustrator
Rebecca Gibbon
Publication Date
March 12, 2024
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
Bird Girl: Gene Stratton-Porter Shares Her Love of Nature with the World

Description

This lively STEAM picture book is about the life of Gene Stratton-Porter, a pioneering wildlife photographer and popular author from the late 19th and early 20th century, who showed the world the beauty of nature, especially birds, and why it was worth preserving.

Gene Stratton-Porter was a farm girl who fell in love with birds, from the chickens whose eggs she collected to the hawks that preyed on them. When she grew up, Gene wanted nothing more than to share her love of birds with the world. She wrote stories about birds, but when a magazine wanted to publish them next to awkward photos of stuffed birds, she knew she had to take matters into her own hands.

Teaching herself photography, Gene began to take photos of birds in the wild. Her knowledge of birds and how to approach them allowed her to get so close you could count the feathers of the birds in her photos. Her work was unlike anything Americans had ever seen before—she captured the true lives of animals in their natural habitat.

A pioneering wildlife photographer and one of the most popular authors of the early 20th century, this bird girl showed the world the beauty of nature and why it was worth preserving.

Publication date
March 12, 2024
Genre
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781635926866
Publisher
Calkins Creek Books
BISAC categories
JNF003030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Birds
JNF007120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
JNF037020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection

Kirkus

Fascinating and inspiring.
Jill Esbaum
JILL ESBAUM is a widely published author of books for young readers. She is a frequent school visitor and conference speaker. She teaches writing for children at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival.