Thoreau at Walden

Resource Information

The work Thoreau at Walden represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Alpha Park Public Library District. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Thoreau at Walden

Statement of responsibility

by John Porcellino, from the writings of Henry David Thoreau ; introduction by D.B. Johnson

Title variation

Center for Cartoon Studies presents

Creator

• Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

Contributor

• Center for Cartoon Studies
• Porcellino, John

Subject

• Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Philosophy -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile literature
• Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts | Walden Woods -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile literature
• Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile literature
• Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile literature

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• Comic books, strips, etc.

Language

eng

Summary

This graphic novel, narrated in Thoreau's own words, weaves together elements from "Walden," "Civil disobedience," "Walking," and Thoreau's journals to tell the story of his two years in the woods and of the night he spent in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax

Member of

• Walden., Selections

Awards note

A Junior Library Guild selection

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

818/.303

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3048

LC item number

.A3 2008

Literary form

comic strips

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adolescent