From the award-winning creators of THOSE REBELS, JOHN & TOM, a joyful portrait of an American icon and an inspiring blueprint for how to live your life.

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book" - Ralph Waldo EmersonA Parents' Choice Gold Award WinnerAn NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book* "Exuberant." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review From the award-winning creators of What to Do About Alice?, comes a joyful portrait of an American icon and an inspiring blueprint for how to live your life.Before Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great writer, he was a city boy who longed for the broad, open fields and deep, still woods of the country, and then a young man who treasured books, ideas, and people. When he grew up and set out in the world, he wondered, could he build a life around these things he loved?This moving biography--presented with Kerley and Fotheringham's inimitable grace and style--illustrates the rewards of a life well-lived, one built around personal passions: creativity and community, nature and friendship.May it inspire you to experiment and build the life you dream of living.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 02/25/2014
ISBN: 9780545350884
Pages: 48
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 12.00h x 8.80w x 0.60d
Award: Parents Choice Awards (Spring) (2008-Up) - Gold Medal Winner
Award: Orbis Pictus Award - Honor Book
Award: NAPPA Gold Awards - Gold Medal Winner

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/02/2013
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2013
School Library Journal 02/01/2014 pg. 120
Booklist 02/01/2014 pg. 52
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2014
Shelf Awareness 03/07/2014
PW Children's Starred Reviews 12/01/2014 pg. 54

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 165263 / Home for Mr. Emerson
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5