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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