A Beautiful (Earth Day) Reminder

Animals of the National Parks isn't just for kids

Hello, Gorgeous!

It’s Earth Day, a perfect time to do something nice for the planet — or for someone living on it. Animals of the National Parks is a stunning illustrated book that is sure to put a smile on anyone’s face, and inspire a lot of wanderlust.

Animals of the National Parks

I needed to decompress over the weekend so I curled up on the couch and fell into the illustrated magic of the national parks with this A-Z book. Did you know that there are 59 national parks? I was sad when I realized how few I’ve actually visited. I’m not sure why I never realized just how many incredible creatures are habitants of the parks, from American Bison (the largest mammals in the parks) to a variety of birds called Xeme. There are tiny tidbits throughout the book about each park dweller.

While this book is touted as being for children 3-5, it isn’t really. There’s no sing-songy rhyming or cutesy singular anthropomorphic characters. What there are though, are absolutely breathtaking illustrations …