Henry Hikes to Fitchburg

D. B. Johnson read Walden in college and was fascinated by the way it mixed nature with politics. He took from Thoreau a lifelong interest in peaceful social change, a belief in the power of ideas, and a road map that made the life of an artist possible through simple living. He has been a freelance illustrator for more than twenty years and has done editorial cartoons, comic strips, and conceptual illustrations for magazines and newspapers around the country. Mr. Johnson's first picture book, Henry Hikes to Fitchburg, was a New York Times Bestseller, a Publishers Weekly Bestseller as well as an American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists." Henry Hikes to Fitchburg also won numerous awards and accolades including the Boston Globe; Horn Book Award for Picture Books, the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, the Massachusetts Book Award for Best Children"s Picture Book, a Booklist Editors' Choice, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.Johnson, D. B. is the author of 'Henry Hikes to Fitchburg ' with ISBN 9780618737499 and ISBN 0618737499.