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by: Gerald Hausman, Loretta Hausman
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781590302286
ISBN: 1590302281
Label: Trumpeter
Manufacturer: Trumpeter
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: April 11, 2006
Publisher: Trumpeter
Reading Level: All Ages
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Sales Rank: 403768
Studio: Trumpeter
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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 is twenty-eight years old, and his life has not been easy. His brother John—his closest friend and companion—has died. The only woman he ever loved has rejected him. On this day he has come to Walden in search of truth—not the truth taught in schools or in church, but the truth he can feel dwelling deep within him. Henry opens his journal and begins to write: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Follow Henry into the woods and out again—through a courageous American life that has changed our world for the better.
For ages 12 and up.
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Rating:  - The Spirit of America
There is no other single person who represents the spirit of America's environmental and creative consciousness movement as does Henry David Thoreau. The Hausma's have done a considerable service of introducing the great man to children and young people and in an accessable manner. Let us all be reminded of the importance of nature.
Rating:  - A reminder to slow down
Reviewed by April Sullivan for Reader Views (08/06)
"A Mind With Wings" is a book for young readers about the life of Henry David Thoreau. It takes us from birth to death and includes all of the major events in between. We learn how Henry grew up in a family of free thinkers. We meet influential people in his life such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Brown. We learn of his setbacks and achievements such as getting thrown in jail, but turning it around into a lecture series. Using ... Read More
Rating: - Reintroducing a Great Man
I read some of A Mind with Wings every night for a week to stretch it out. I enjoyed every minute of it. Thoreau has so much life to him in this book. The Hausmans chose just the right places to meet him and just the right tone for him to speak to us, grown ups and kids alike. And I learned a heck of a lot. I never knew so many of the things that were in the book; things it gave me pleasure to learn. I always loved HDT, but he seemed kind of old and dead in my mind. In this story he was young and lively ... Read More
Rating: - Lively fiction and thorough research reveals Thoreau's life and personality
The portrait of Henry David Thoreau written in "A Mind With Wings" is so good that I wanted to read Walden Pond again. The authors have done a great job of researching each detail and made this reclusive author turn into a real, warm-bodied human being whose writing is ever more accessible to me. I hope a great many others will also enjoy this new perspective of a great author.
Rating:  - FICTION, not biography
The Hausmans have reincarnated a technique popularized by YA biographies written in the mid-20th century -- that of presenting historical facts in the context of reconstructed conversation. It is hoped that the reader can differentiate between the two. In the old days, that kind of text was pulled off as gospel truth. Here the authors explain their craft in an opening note, maintaining that the dialogue in this book comes from Thoreau's own writings. Sure enough, it does. But even so, one has to wonder ... Read More
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