The Fifty-Nine Parks poster series taught a generation to want screen printed art of Yosemite on the wall. This is that same house style handed to an alphabet book, and the result is a children's book that adults keep reaching for.

A to Z through the animals of America's national parks, from the American bison, the largest mammal in the parks, to the flying squirrel, which can glide the length of a football field, to the xeme, which takes two full years to grow its adult feathers. Each animal comes with a real fact and the parks where it can actually be found, so the book works as a field primer and not just as a pretty object.

Two features turn it into a trip planner. An illustrated map of all the parks shows a child where the animals live, and a passport page gives them somewhere to record the parks they have visited. Children who fill in a page want to fill in the next one.

The art is nostalgic and contemporary at once, printed large on a sturdy hardcover. It is the gift for the family with a park pass on the dashboard, and it is the one book on the shelf that a guest will pick up unprompted.