Henry Builds a Cabin

"Johnson's illustrations are similarly enjoyable and complicated. Painted in a now-quaint 1920's modernist style that's part Cubist, part Deco and part Futurist, they look at first glance to have nothing to do with the 1845 world of Thoreau's cabin-raising. At second glance, too. Yet somehow they work wonderfully, and the ''lines of force'' (as the Futurists used to call those diagonal lines that zigged through their compositions) serve to link Henry to nature and to the cabin with an off-kilter glee bound to appeal to children."Johnson, D. B. is the author of 'Henry Builds a Cabin' with ISBN 9780618132010 and ISBN 0618132015.