Synopses & Reviews
Inspired by a passage from Henry David Thoreauand#8217;s Walden, the wonderfully appealing Henry Hikes to Fitchburg follows two friends who have very different approaches to life. When the two agree to meet one evening in Fitchburg, which is thirty miles away, each decides to get there in his own way, and the two have surprisingly different days.
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The New York Times Book review (10/5/00)
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"An auspicious picture book debut." —Horn Book
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STAR "A nicely realized retelling of a short passage from Henry Thoreau's Walden." —School Library Journal, starred review
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A Publishers Weekly Flying Start
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"A masterpiece . . .The finest illustrations I've seen in years and years andyears." —Daniel Pinkwater, NPR Weekend Edition
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STAR "A nicely realized retelling of a short passage from Henry Thoreau's Walden." —School Library Journal, starred review
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"A masterpiece . . .The finest illustrations I've seen in years and years and years." and#151;Daniel Pinkwater, NPR Weekend Edition
"An auspicious picture book debut." and#151;Horn Book Horn Book
"This splendid book works on several levels. Johnsonand#8217;s adaptation of a paragraph taken from Thoreauand#8217;s Walden illuminates the contrast between materialistic and naturalistic view of life without ranting or preaching. . . . [The illustrations] demonstrate Johnsonand#8217;s virtuosic control of his craft" and#151;Booklist, starred review Booklist, ALA, Starred Review
STAR "A nicely realized retelling of a short passage from Henry Thoreauand#8217;s Walden." and#151;School Library Journal, starred review School Library Journal, Starred
A Publishers Weekly Flying Start Publishers Weekly
About the Author
D. B. Johnson has been a freelance illustrator for more than twenty years and has done editorial cartoons, comic strips, and conceptual illustrations for magazines and newspapers around the country. Mr. Johnsonand#8217;s first picture book, Henry Hikes to Fitchburg, was a New York Times bestseller and a Publishers Weekly bestseller, as well as an American Bookseller and#147;Pick of the Lists.and#8221; Henry Hikes to Fitchburg also won numerous awards, including the Boston Globeand#150;Horn Book Award for Picture Books and the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. Mr. Johnson and his wife, Linda, live in New Hampshire.