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I Begin with Spring: The Life and Seasons of Henry David Thoreau

English

By (author): Julie Dunlap

Illustrated by: Megan Elizabeth Baratta

I Begin with Spring weaves natural history around Thoreaus life and times in a richly illustrated field notebook format that can be opened anywhere and invites browsing on every page. Beginning each season with quotes from Thoreaus schoolboy essay about the changing seasons, Early Bloomer follows him through the fields and woods of Concord, the joys and challenges of growing up, his experiment with simple living on Walden Pond, and his participation in the abolition movement, self-reliance, science, and literature.

The books two organizing themesthe chronology of Thoreaus life and the seasonal cycle beginning with springinteract seamlessly on every spread, suggesting the correspondence of human seasons with natures. Thoreaus annual records of blooms, bird migrations, and other natural events scroll in a timeline across the page bottoms, and the backmatter includes a summary of how those dates have changed from his day to ours and what that tells us about the science of phenology and climate change.

Megan Barattas watercolors are augmented with historical images and reproductions of Thoreaus own sketches to create a high-interest visual experience. The book includes a foreword from Thoreau scholar Jeffrey Cramer, Curator of Collections for the Walden Woods Project.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 464g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 236mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Mar 2022
  • Publisher: Tilbury HouseU.S.
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780884489085

About Julie Dunlap

Julie Dunlap is a childrens book writer whose books have earned a Junior Library Guild Selection a Boston Globe Pick of the Lists a Teachers Choice from Learner Magazine a Parents Choice Award and an honorable mention for childrens books from the National Association for Humane and Environmental Education. Her childrens books include Louisa May and Mr. Thoreaus Flute (Dial Books for Young Readers); Parks for the People: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted; Extraordinary Horseshoe Crabs; and Coyotes and Bats (written under her pseudonym Julia Vogel). She has also co-edited two anthologies for adult readers Companions in Wonder: Children and Adults Exploring Nature Together (MIT Press) and Coming of Age at the End of Nature (Trinity University Press) and writes for environmental education organizations such as Interfaith Oceans and the Audubon Naturalist Society. She earned a PhD in social ecology from Yale University and teaches undergraduates about wildlife ecology and sustainability at the University of Maryland University College. Megan Elizabeth Baratta is the illustrator of Most Days and I Begin with Spring both of which received starred reviews. See more at barattastudio.com.

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