As you watch the leaves drift to the ground, it is easy to understand the original name—"fall of the leaf"—for the season we now call, simply, fall. But it is perhaps less easy to understand how the leaves change from green to gold, and sometimes to scarlet and crimson, or how some flowers are protected through the cold of winter, or how birds migrate to their distant winter homes, or how salmon come back to the stream where they first hatched.

The explanations of these and many other phenomena are in this beautifully illustrated companion volume to SPRING IS HERE! Author Dorothy Sterling and illustrator Winifred Lubell have once again combined their talents to explain the mystery of the changing seasons in simple yet fascinating language and illustrations.

From the dust jacket