Harriet loved a hat.

She loved them with ribbons and flowers, embroidery and pearls. And feathers! What was better than a hat with grand, glorious feathers?

But one morning she read an alarming news story about the millions of birds who died so that Harriet and her friends could soar at the height of style. A passion for fashion was one thing, but this was featherbrained! So Harriet led the charge to take feathers out of fashion, getting laws passed that made it illegal to buy or sell wild bird feathers.

Harriet and her fellow bird protectors founded the Massachusetts Audubon Society, named for an artist famous for his paintings of birds. This in turn helped found the Audubon Society, a national organization that still protects birds today and encourages us to admire feathers exactly where they belong—on the birds in nature all around us!

From the dust jacket