When Frederick Law Olmsted entered a contest to design the nation’s first city park, his winning design became New York’s Central Park and forever changed our nation’s cities. Using historic photographs and a school resource section, award-winning children’s author Julie Dunlap brings Olmsted to life in this biography of the United States’ first landscape architect.

Julie Dunlap is a freelance writer and researcher. Dunlap’s books have been honored with a Teachers’ Choice Award from Learning magazine, a Parents’ Choice recommended selection, and a Junior Library Guild selection, among others.