Now in paperback from award-winning and NY Times bestselling children's author of more than 350 books, Jane Yolen, and award-winning illustrator, Bob Marstall. On Bird Hill was created in collaboration with the esteemed Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the world authority on birds, released in hard cover in spring 2016, acclaimed as a beautiful celebration and meditation on the magic of life. Losely based on the old cumulative nursery rhyme/song "The Green Grass Grew All Around," a nursery rhyme first published as a song in 1912 with words by William Jerome and melody by Harry Von Tilzer, Yolen and Marstall take readers on a wonderous journey of discovery.

 

There are 36 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Phoenix St. Claire Publishing, LLC .

Bob Marstall is the illustrator of nine nonfiction children's books, including The Lady and the Spider , which sold over a quarter-of-a-million copies and was a Reading Rainbow selection. Bob has also been honored with an ALA Notable Book award; an IRA Teachers' choice; a Smithsonian Magazine Notable Book for Children; and three John Burroughs selections. In addition, two of Bob's books are included in the New York Times Parent's Guide's "1001 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. " Bob lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Visit Bob's website at www. marstallstudio. com. Jane Yolen has written almost three hundred books, many of them awardwinners. She lives in St. Andrews, Scotland, and Hatfield, Massachusetts.