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walkitoutI got this book in the children’s library at Acton Memorial. I wanted the kids to have a way to get a sense of some of the national parks we are thinking about visiting.
“Road Trip: National Parks” has a lot of books. We also got their “Yellowstone” entry, which I haven’t read yet.
They are thin books, with lots of very good photographs. This one was published in 2016 by Gareth Stevens Publishing, an imprint which is unfamiliar to me. The book describes a little about how the Grand Canyon was formed, how it became a park, the various sections of the park, what kind of wildlife and activities are in the park, and what the weather is like during the year. It also briefly mentions other nearby parks, and a bit of the history of exploration and reservations in the area. There is a glossary.
When I was a child, I liked books with lots of words. They had a lot of information. Also, good photographs in book were quite expensive, and most books I got were second hand and thus from an even earlier age when photographs of good quality in books was quite unusual. My children do not read with the facility that I read when I was of a similar age; their interest is held much better when the words are fewer, but they tend to get a lot out of photographs, and relate pictures to the words to figure things out that when I was their age, I would have been looking for the words to explain to me. These books are really good for them. I can also imagine that this would be a pretty good way to practice English, if it were not one’s first language (very simple language but on a topic of interest).
ETA: Book number 9. Altho I’m not sure it should count.
“Road Trip: National Parks” has a lot of books. We also got their “Yellowstone” entry, which I haven’t read yet.
They are thin books, with lots of very good photographs. This one was published in 2016 by Gareth Stevens Publishing, an imprint which is unfamiliar to me. The book describes a little about how the Grand Canyon was formed, how it became a park, the various sections of the park, what kind of wildlife and activities are in the park, and what the weather is like during the year. It also briefly mentions other nearby parks, and a bit of the history of exploration and reservations in the area. There is a glossary.
When I was a child, I liked books with lots of words. They had a lot of information. Also, good photographs in book were quite expensive, and most books I got were second hand and thus from an even earlier age when photographs of good quality in books was quite unusual. My children do not read with the facility that I read when I was of a similar age; their interest is held much better when the words are fewer, but they tend to get a lot out of photographs, and relate pictures to the words to figure things out that when I was their age, I would have been looking for the words to explain to me. These books are really good for them. I can also imagine that this would be a pretty good way to practice English, if it were not one’s first language (very simple language but on a topic of interest).
ETA: Book number 9. Altho I’m not sure it should count.