Junior Ranger Adventures, Paul Bunyan & Me in Yosemite
The Jr Ranger Adventures books are my way of motivating families to go camping and read more, ending with fun facts and puzzles.
This is to kick start for "The Jr Ranger Adventure" Series of National Park Books. Fun for adults and kids to read. Each book is fiction and has an amazing story blended with American Folklore.
As the population of America grows exponentially, our challenge to preserve our National Parks is just as great. “The Jr Ranger Adventures” will educate and impress a more permanent love for our National Parks by enlisting our National Folk Heroes.
Our first finished book, “Paul Bunyan & Me in Yosemite” is a story of ten-year-old twins Lucas and Lucy, the children of National Park Director Talitha Fern and her husband John Henry who begin a camping tour together of the National Parks.
Lucas discovers an ability to communicate with the Giant Grizzly sequoia tree in the Mariposa Grove. He is shown the hidden location of Paul Bunyan who disappeared into the west over a hundred years ago, thus beginning an adventure like no other.
Eventually Lucas and Lucy earn their Jr Ranger badges while helping their Mom (Talitha) recruit the largest human in the world as Yosemite’s newest Ranger.
The President of the United States visits to help convince Paul Bunyan into joining the team. A presidential visit described very much like the one that recently took place. Paul Bunyan is a changed man dedicated to preserving trees rather than chopping them down, he decides to turn his axe and bull into tools of preservation.
You will also meet the mighty John Henry (Father of our Jr Rangers), Casey Jones, Ranger Pamahas (Pam) the great-granddaughter of an ingenious Native American basket weaver and of course the President of the United States.
You will travel from the palm of Paul Bunyan’s hand in Yosemite, to a velvety soft red seat in the caboose of the Cannonball with Casey Jones, gliding towards book two in the Grand Canyon. An experience you will never forget. "John Henry & Me in the Grand Canyon" will release by May 2017.
16 Books between 120-180 pages each, are outlined and planned between 2017-2020 including National Parks in Ireland, England, Germany, Russia, China. All connected to the same story just adding different folk-heroes and countries.
We have an amazing artist preparing beautiful and unusual art of Folk-heroes living in our National Parks.
Each book includes fun facts and puzzles in the end to assist the reader doing a book report or on a very long and possibly restless trip to one of our amazing National Parks.
