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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Book Review - America's National Parks A Pop-Up Book - Don Comton

America's National Parks, a Pop-Up Book

Author: Concept and Text Don Compton, Paper Engineering by Bruce Foster, and Illustrations by Dave Ember

Review:   Go out and buy this book today.  For every purchase $8 goes to the National park Foundation and for the deluxe version $80 goes to the foundation.  This is a beautiful book that anyone would enjoy…especially a gift for a family, parent, child….etc.  My family loved reading and looking at this book.  Each park that is featured pops right out at you along with flaps you can lift to read and view more items at that park.  Do you love our National Parks?  If so this is the book for you.

The paper is heavy and with use the pop-up will still work and amaze the reader.  My children are amazed by the pages and the content of each.  We have visited many of the parks in this book and now there are telling me we need to go again because they are sure they missed something.  Anyone will love the way the book come to life, the pages form a vision of the parks something that will last in your mind and heart.

If you only buy one book this week, month, or year, buy this book you will not be disappointed and some of the money will go to support these beautiful parks that are our national treasures.  The goal of these books is to raise $100,000 for the parks in this great country.  The pop-up art is in the style of the 1030’s WPA posters, you will love them!!!!

Go buy this book today!!!

Published:  Published March 15th 2013 by W.W. West Inc.
ISBN: 780975896037
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 10 x 10, 6 double page pop-ops, 5 double page text plus 1030’s WPA posters.
Quick Review: 5 stars (out of 5)
Where I Obtained the Book:  Sent by the publisher for review.

Synopsis:  Your favorite national parks rise up in spectacular three-dimensional scenes in his spectacular book. Go on a coast-to-coast journey to 18 of our most-visited parks, six of them as stunning pop-ups. Detailed descriptions of 12 other national parks accompany colorful reproductions of original WPA posters. Pop-ups from paper engineer Bruce Foster and rich text by Dave Ember preserve the history and beauty of our most treasured national parks to be enjoyed at home for years to come.

More Book Information:   
See the endangered Florida panther peering out from a cypress grove, an alligator charging a white egret, a snarling grizzly bear protecting her cubs, adventurers in a dory boat crashing through the rapids of the Colorado River, all rising up from the pages of America's National Parks, A Pop-Up Book. This pop-up masterpiece will become a family favorite.

Many of our country's biggest, highest and deepest wonders are found in the national park system. Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park is our deepest lake. Mt. McKinley in Denali National Park is the highest point in North America, and the nation's lowest point is Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park. In California, Sequoia National Park has the world's largest trees, giant sequoias. In nearby Yosemite National Park is the highest waterfall in North America, Yosemite Falls, cascading 2,425 feet into the valley. Our hope is the stunning pop-up scenes of America's National Parks, A Pop-Up Book will inspire you and your family to visit these special places.

Throughout our history, great Americans traveled into the national parks, and praised their beauty and majesty. John James Audubon described his first visit to the Everglades: "We observed great flocks of wading birds flying overhead...in such numbers to actually block out the light from the sun..." President Theodore Roosevelt said of the Grand Canyon, "The most impressive piece of scenery I have ever looked at..." And John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, said of his

favorite wilderness, Yosemite National Park, "It is by far the grandest of all the special temples of Nature I was ever permitted to enter." The book captures the beauty of these parks in amazing three-dimensional pop-up scenes. Stories are told of heroic explorers, such as John Wesley Powell who in 1869 set off with nine companions in four wooden boats to run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Newspapers across the country reported on his trip into what mapmakers named The Great Unknown. One newspaper reported on the planned trip, "whoever ventures into this canyon will never come out alive," almost a true prediction as Powell---with five crew members, in two boats---completed their 1,000 mile, ninety-nine-day expedition.

Springing to life are wildflowers of Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park (rises 13" above the page); a mountain goat, the iconic mammal of Glacier National Park, perches on a high cliff; and the grandest lodge in all of the national park system, The Ahwahnee in Yosemite National Park, invites you to enter.

The pop-up creations of Bruce Foster are impressive, as is the truly American art style of the 1930s WPA posters used by Dave Ember to magnificently illustrate each pop-up spread. Our national parks are in your heart. Now have them spring to life in your home with America's National Parks, A Pop-Up Book.

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