If You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond

by Robert Burleigh

Book Overview

In 1845 in Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau began a radical experiment: he built a cabin in the woods and lived there, alone, examining the world around him. He spent his days walking the shores of Walden Pond, growing beans, observing plants and animals, and recording his reflections in his notebook. These reflections eventually became his seminal work Walden . In this lovely picture book, Robert Burleigh and Wendell Minor imagine a special...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805091378
• ISBN13: 9780805091373
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.9" x 11.5"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 4