Bowerbirds are 'small birds found in Australia and New Guinea that create stirking 'collages' from all sorts of materials they find in their habitats - paper, leaves, twigs, fabric, beads, wire, bits of wood, and anything else they can carry. And that's pretty much the way Susan Roth works in her own habitat in Queens, New York., creating collages for the more than fifty picture books she's illustrated, many of which she has also written. Susan and Bowerbirds both love color. They both get their ideas from the world around them and the objects they find in it. And no tow of their respective works are exactly alike." -- From the publisher.

"Neal Porter Books."