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Henry Hikes to Fitchburg (A Henry Book)
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Jan 14, 2020
bookshelves: 2000, award-various, bage-children, genre-beginner, genre-fantasy, genre-travel, nature, series, series-unfinished, sub-cities, sub-trees-forest
This story is taken from a line in the book ‘Walden� by Henry David Thoreau, which is the Henry in the title.
Henry and a friend decide to go to Fitchburg which is 30 miles away. The friend thinks it would be faster to get there by train and Henry thinks it faster to walk. The friend works hard all day long to earn money for a train ticket while Henry walks through the woods stopping to look at stones and plants and pick berries. They get to Fitchburg at the same time only it’s been a refreshing trip for Henry and his friend is worn out. (the friend had to toil all day, then wait in line and then stand on a crowded train all the way there.) (The people are portrayed as bears)
D. B. lifting the idea for this right out of “Walden� I loved Walden as a Teen. It was a favorite of that time. I think my favorite part of the book was the last page where we read about Thoreau and his life. You know, I wish Brad Metzler would do a book about Henry.
The nephew thought this book was dreadfully boring. One bears is working the whole time and another was in the woods the whole time. Nothing exciting here for him. He gave this 1 star. He didn’t even care the bears were cute.
Henry and a friend decide to go to Fitchburg which is 30 miles away. The friend thinks it would be faster to get there by train and Henry thinks it faster to walk. The friend works hard all day long to earn money for a train ticket while Henry walks through the woods stopping to look at stones and plants and pick berries. They get to Fitchburg at the same time only it’s been a refreshing trip for Henry and his friend is worn out. (the friend had to toil all day, then wait in line and then stand on a crowded train all the way there.) (The people are portrayed as bears)
D. B. lifting the idea for this right out of “Walden� I loved Walden as a Teen. It was a favorite of that time. I think my favorite part of the book was the last page where we read about Thoreau and his life. You know, I wish Brad Metzler would do a book about Henry.
The nephew thought this book was dreadfully boring. One bears is working the whole time and another was in the woods the whole time. Nothing exciting here for him. He gave this 1 star. He didn’t even care the bears were cute.
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nature
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sub-cities
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sub-trees-forest
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Jan 14, 2020 07:06AM
What an interesting idea for a picture book!
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I wonder if your nephew would have found a human Henry more interesting.
Dianna wrote: "What an interesting idea for a picture book!"Dianna, I thought it was interesting too. There is a series of this and I assume it's more situations from 'Walden.' I'm interested in checking them out.
Manybooks wrote: "I wonder if your nephew would have found a human Henry more interesting."That's interesting. Usually, he does like animals. I guess it depends. He knows what he likes and doesn't like.
I seem to recall that it has a lot of little math problems embedded - I liked that as well as the historical/literary context.
Karen wrote: "I seem to recall that it has a lot of little math problems embedded - I liked that as well as the historical/literary context."Karen, I don't recall exactly, but I think you're correct. It was an interesting concept I enjoyed.
