The Winter Room

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The Winter Room is a short novel by Newbery Honor award winning author Gary Paulsen, intended for children from ages 9 to 12. It is a mythical story about Vikings, elves, but primarily logging, narrated in the first person to two boys by their Norwegian uncle in the "winter room" of a farm in northern Minnesota (U.S.). Like many of his works, it evokes a harsh rural environment using vivid imagery, and has elements of a coming of age tale.

According to Hurst^[1], it is a "brief, intense novel with incredible descriptive scenes" (n.d.), and Schmitz rates it as one of Paulsen's best^[2].

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Hurst, n.d., para. 1.
2. ^ Schmitz, 1994, para. 3.

[edit] References

• Hurst, Carol Otis. (n.d.). "The Winter Room". Retrieved on March 10, 2006 from Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site.
• Schmitz, James A (Fall 1994). "Gary Paulsen: A Writer of His Time". The Alan Review, vol 22., no. 1. Retrieved on March 10, 2006 from dla Special Collections.

[edit] Release details

• 1989, USA, Scholastic Press (ISBN 0-531-05839-5), Pub date ? September 1989, hardback (1st edition)
• 1989, USA, Orchard Books (ISBN 0-531-08439-6), Pub date ? October 1989, hardback
• 1996, USA, Yearling Books (ISBN 0-440-40454-1), Pub date ? July 1996, paperback
• 1991, USA, Perfection Learning Prebound (ISBN 0-7807-0416-9), Pub date ? September 1991, hardback
• 1991, USA, Bantam Doubleday Dell (ISBN 0-440-80228-8), Pub date ? April 1991, paperback
• 1995, USA, Yearling Books (ISBN 99954-61-53-6), Pub date ? February 1995, paperback
• 1996, ?, Laurel Leaf (ISBN 0-440-22031-9), Pub date 2 May 1996, paperback
• 1998, ?, Laurel Leaf (ISBN 0-440-22783-6), Pub date ? December 1998, paperback
• 1999, ?, Rebound by Sagebrush (ISBN 0-8335-6149-9), Pub date ? October 1999, hardback
• 2005, USA, Thorndike Press (ISBN 0-7862-7251-1), Pub date 16 February 2005, hardback (large print edition)

Works of Gary Paulsen

Brian series: Hatchet • Brian's Return • Brian's Winter • The River • Brian's Hunt Tucket series: Mr. Tucket • Call Me Francis Tucket • Tucket's Ride • Tucket's Gold • Tucket's Home • Tucket's Travels World of Adventure Series: Captive! • Curse of the Ruins • Danger on Midnight River • Escape from Fire Mountain historical novels: The Quilt • Alida's Song • Soldier's Heart • Nightjohn • Sarny comical books:The Amazing Life of Birds The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech • Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day • The Glass Cafe: Or the Stripper and the State; How My Mother Started a War with the System That Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous • The Boy Who Owned the School • The Schernoff Discoveries • Harris and Me other: Canoe Days • The Beet Fields • The White Fox Chronicles • The Transall Saga • The Rifle •The Tent • Dogteam • The Car • A Christmas Sonata • The Monument •The Haymeadow • Woodsong • The Night the White Deer Died • Canyons • The Winter Room •The Voyage of the Frog • The Island • The Crossing non-fiction:How Angel Petersen Got His Name • Caught by the Sea • Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books • Father Water, Mother Woods • My Life in Dog Years • Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers