Bird Girl: Gene Stratton-Porter Shares Her Love of Nature with the World by Jill Esbaum 1950-1999 Founder and President

Founder and President

The paper used is a beautiful textured

After training at the National Academy of Design

she decided to be an illustrator and spent much of her time reading and drawing

Bird Girl: Gene Stratton-Porter Shares Her Love of Nature with the World by Jill Esbaum 1950-1999 Founder and PresidentThis 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