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Bird Girl: Gene Stratton-Porter Shares Her Love of Nature with the World
Jill Esbaum
Illustrator: Rebecca Gibbon
Ages: 9+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Calkins Creek/Astra BFYR/Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 978-1-63592-686-6
Keywords: Biography/Memoir-Birding, early photography, naturalist.
A young girl who became one of the leading naturalists of the 20th century helped save and restore important wetlands and other wild places. Watercolor illustrations. Back matter.