Saving Jemima life and love with a hard-luck jay

The story of a sick baby bird nursed back to health and into the wild.

Main Author:	Zickefoose, Julie (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Subjects:	Blue jay > Wounds and injuries > Treatment > Anecdotes. Blue jay > Reintroduction > Anecdotes. Human-animal relationships > Anecdotes. Anecdotes.

Summary:	The story of a sick baby bird nursed back to health and into the wild. When Jemima, a young orphaned blue jay, is brought to wildlife rehabilitator Zickefoose, she is a virtually tailless, palm-sized bundle of gray-blue fluff. Though starved and very sick, she is nursed back to health and raised for eventual release. In the meantime, Jemima takes over the house and the rest of the author's summer. Shortly after release Jemima turns up with a deadly disease, but medicating a free-flying wild bird is a challenge. Zickefoose shows how Jemima became a creative muse and source of strength through her own heartbreaking changes. -- adapted from jacket
Item Description:	Includes index.
Physical Description:	xii, 254 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (page 237) and index.
ISBN:	9781328518958 1328518957
Author Notes:	Writer/artist JULIE ZICKEFOOSE is fascinated by the interface of birds and people. Studying blue jays, a familiar yet deeply mysterious species, has opened a new world to her. She lives on an 80-acre sanctuary.