Gerald and Loretta Hausman have coauthored several popular books for young readers including Escape from Botany Bay (a Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award winner), Napoleon and Josephine, and The Mythology of Dogs. Gerald is also the coauthor, with Uton Hinds, of The Jacob Ladder, which was named one of the New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens.
The Story of Henry David Thoreau
Biography / Memoir / Education / Nature and the Environment / Trumpeter
Hardcover / Trumpeter / 160 pages / 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
ISBN 978-1-59030-228-6 / April 2006
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It's July 4, 1845. A soft-spoken young man named Henry David Thoreau has carefully constructed a small, simple cabin in the woods overlooking Walden Pond. For the next two years, his closest companions will be the chickadees, the woodchucks, and the quiet pines of the Walden Woods.
Henry...