Overview / 简介: |
| Inspired by a passage from Henry David Thoreau’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. |
From Organization / 国外机构评价: |
| This cheery first picture book, with appealing full-page pictures in colored pencil and paint, is a variation on the old cautionary tale about the tortoise and the hare. Two bear chums decide to make a trip to Fitchburg. Henry will hoof the distance (some 30 miles), while his nameless friend opts to work until he has "the money to buy a ticket to ride the train to Fitchburg." In leisurely fashion, Henry wades across the Sudbury River, presses ferns and flowers in the pages of a book he is carrying, walks atop stone walls, makes a raft to paddle up the Nashua River and, finally, within a stone's throw of his destination, stops to eat his way through a blackberry patch. Meanwhile his earnest friend works diligently-- moving books, filling woodboxes, sweeping the post office, pulling weeds, etc.-- in order to earn the necessary 90-cent fare to Fitchburg. Each bear achieves his goal, Henry losing the race but gaining a number of happy memories and a pail of blackberries for his train-traveling friend. Children will enjoy the slow-paced contest and probably bet on the wrong bear to win. A 2000 Parents' Choice® Recommended winner. |
Foreign Customer Review / 国外客户评价: |
| There's a lot to love in this book by D. B. Johnson. There is the priceless story-lesson concerning two bears traveling to the same destination by widely divergent paths, one enjoying the pleasures of nature along the way while the other works to earn fare to travel by more modern means. There are the beautifully memorable illustrations, one after another, of the bears as they make their way to Fitchburg. And there is the message, to stop and smell the roses, take in a little nature, just walk. Or maybe just sit in the woods and read Thoreau. |
About the Author / 作者介绍: |
| 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. Johnson’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 “Pick of the Lists.” Henry Hikes to Fitchburg also won numerous awards, including the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Books and the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. Mr. Johnson and his wife, Linda, live in New Hampshire. |
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