Bird GirlBy: Jill Esbaum Illustrator: Rebecca Gibbon 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.