Minna Hall and Harriet Hemenway, two very well bred Boston ladies, decide that something simply must be done. All over town fashionable ladies are parading around with dead birds perched upon their hats! Besides driving the poor birds to extinction, the silly hats are making women look frivolous and ridiculous.
But in 1896 women don't have much say in the way the world is run. So Minna and Harriet gather together the most prominent women and men in town and form a club to protect the birds. Thus is born the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
David Catrow has delightfully illustrated Kathryn Lasky's enthralling tale of how one of America's oldest and most successful conservation groups came to be. And of how two determined and proper ladies became classic American activists- for women, for social progress, and, of course, for the birds.