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32 pp.
| Houghton |
April, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-0-547-05663-0$16.00
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
D. B. Johnson.
In Johnson's fifth Henry Bear book, the Henry David Thoreau stand-in writes about his nighttime quest to find the whippoorwill ("Are you the one who sings / the song of night?"). The Walden-inspired text is poetic; fans of Henry's more concrete previous adventures may find it somewhat opaque. Johnson's signature gauzy mixed-media art takes on a dreamlike appearance.