A review by nerfherder86
The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks by Barb Rosenstock

4.0

A clever look at how the National Parks were formed, or at least, the idea of them came into being. Based on a true incident, when President Teddy Roosevelt asked naturalist John Muir to show him the California wilderness on a camping trip. They visited Yosemite, alone, camping out, and though this really happened, there isn't much documentation about it, so the book imagines their conversations every night around the campfire after exploring the fabulous wilderness. Really fun illustrations by one of my favorite childhood illustrators, Mordecai Gerstein (he did the Something Queer mysteries by Elizabeth Levy, I just adored the lazy basset hound). Not technically a biography, has only a brief source list, but a wonderful book to share the love of nature and how important it is to protect our parks.