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Meet Bob Marstall
 

Bob Marstall is a landscape painter and an illustrator of many award-winning children’s books. “Since my childhood,” he says, “I have had an insatiable curiosity about the natural world and my place in it.”

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Bob Marstall in the lab
 

He has illustrated the following books by Laurence Pringle: An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly; A Dragon in the Sky: The Story of a Green Darner Dragonfly; Crows!: Strange and Wonderful; and Fire in the Forest: A Cycle of Growth and Renewal.

Bob and Larry recently received a National Science Foundation Artists and Writers Program Grant to research a book about Weddell seals in Antarctica. During that trip, Bob will send an e-postcard to HighlightsKids.com every day.

Bob says, “Through my postcards, I’d like to show kids the relationship between art and science. I hope they’ll also see that, with close observation, common things can become fascinating.”

An Extraordinary Life A Dragon in the Sky Crows! Strange and Wonderful Fire in the Forest