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hollyxbear's review against another edition
5.0
What a fun way to teach kiddos about the national parks!
jaij7's review against another edition
5.0
Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir together would make excellent camping companions. I love this story.
jwinchell's review against another edition
3.0
This is on the 2014 Monarch list.
It was wonderful to learn this history--how national parks were established because of the friendship between John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt. Some of the illustrations were gorgeous--the sequoia page, and the Yosemite Valley page. But overall, the artwork didn't do a whole lot for me. The storytelling wasn't great; there was too much to accomplish, maybe. Still very interesting. I'd love to hear what early elementary kids think of it.
It was wonderful to learn this history--how national parks were established because of the friendship between John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt. Some of the illustrations were gorgeous--the sequoia page, and the Yosemite Valley page. But overall, the artwork didn't do a whole lot for me. The storytelling wasn't great; there was too much to accomplish, maybe. Still very interesting. I'd love to hear what early elementary kids think of it.
aoosterwyk's review against another edition
3.0
A timely and simple picture book about the creation of our national parks and monuments. John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt transformed their passion for the outdoors into a conservation success. This could feed into a discussion about what is currently happening with the Trump administration and the national monument land grab.
swtmarie's review against another edition
4.0
After visiting Yosemite NP, I had to check out all the books on John Muir and his efforts to preserve the nation's wilderness. This was a fascinating story of President Theodore Roosevelt writing Muir asking him to take him on a camping trip in Yosemite. Muir leaves the President in awe as he takes him to Mariposa Grove where they slept under the giants and then on to Glacier Point learning about how the rocks were formed from glaciers. "Teedie" became an advocate and was able to create laws that helped preserve our beloved national parks and trees, as well as national monuments.
saidtheraina's review against another edition
4.0
Very few people I've asked know the following:
The youngest president ever elected in the USA was not JFK. It also wasn't Obama.
The youngest president ever elected in the United States was Teddy Roosevelt.
That's actually just an aside to this story.
This is a beautiful, picture-book-style retelling of the story of how John Muir helped convince Roosevelt that we need to protect wild land. Rosenstock and [a:Mordicai Gerstein|2695|Mordicai Gerstein|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1317313782p2/2695.jpg] give a little bit of background information on Roosevelt and Muir's lives, then describe a trip they took together exploring what would become Yosemite National Park. Until the men reach the park, the story is told in contained pictures, with white space underneath the text. Once they enter the wild, the images bleed out to the edges of the pages. My favorite spread depicts the giant sequoia trees - the readers has to tip the book sideways to read the text.
I took this book to local elementary schools as part of my summer reading promotional visits in 2013. We talked about how things like national parks don't just happen - someone decided to create them at some point.
This is a great example of a really amazing book that can have a hard time finding an audience, particularly in a public library. The kids didn't show as much interest in this as in some of the other titles I presented. I think many kids worry about seeming babyish when they read stories in a picture-book style format.
But I hope they read this one.
The youngest president ever elected in the USA was not JFK. It also wasn't Obama.
The youngest president ever elected in the United States was Teddy Roosevelt.
That's actually just an aside to this story.
This is a beautiful, picture-book-style retelling of the story of how John Muir helped convince Roosevelt that we need to protect wild land. Rosenstock and [a:Mordicai Gerstein|2695|Mordicai Gerstein|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1317313782p2/2695.jpg] give a little bit of background information on Roosevelt and Muir's lives, then describe a trip they took together exploring what would become Yosemite National Park. Until the men reach the park, the story is told in contained pictures, with white space underneath the text. Once they enter the wild, the images bleed out to the edges of the pages. My favorite spread depicts the giant sequoia trees - the readers has to tip the book sideways to read the text.
I took this book to local elementary schools as part of my summer reading promotional visits in 2013. We talked about how things like national parks don't just happen - someone decided to create them at some point.
This is a great example of a really amazing book that can have a hard time finding an audience, particularly in a public library. The kids didn't show as much interest in this as in some of the other titles I presented. I think many kids worry about seeming babyish when they read stories in a picture-book style format.
But I hope they read this one.
shawnareads24's review against another edition
5.0
Great read. Lessons on collaboration, saving nature, history.
a_manning11's review against another edition
5.0
A perfect combination of beautiful images and a fascinating true story of the creation of America's National Parks. The stories told at night are incorporated very well, and the giant sequoias are shown across a double page, to show their true size, and still the tree tops won't fit.
"What if everyone owned the wilderness?"
"What if everyone owned the wilderness?"
froydis's review against another edition
3.0
3 1/2 stars - The story is really good, and I liked the additional information at the end. I didn't really like the style of the artwork - much to messy for my taste, and it didn't seem to match the mood of the story very well. I did like the pages that were turned on their sides - that was a nice touch.
mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition
4.0
A good mixture of history and children's picture book. This book tells the history but doesn't forget it also needs to be a story. Both Muir and TR are captured vividly and well. Readable and with beautiful art.