The Winter Room

The Winter Room
Author Gary Paulsen
Country United States
Language English
Genre Novel
Publisher Scholastic Books, 1989[1]
Media type Hardcover and Paperback
Pages 103
Awards Newbery Honor Book, 1990[2]

The Winter Room is a short novel by Newbery Honor award winning author Gary Paulsen. It is a realistic Fiction story about logging and farming, 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,[3] it is a "brief, intense novel with incredible descriptive scenes" (n.d.), and Schmitz rates it as one of Paulsen's best.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Winter Room". OCLC Worldcat. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present". Association for Library Service to Children. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  3. ↑ Hurst, Carol. "The Winter Room". Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site. BooksInTheClassroom.
  4. ↑ Schmitz, James A. (Fall 1994). "Gary Paulson: A Writer of His Time". The Alan Review 22 (1). Retrieved 7 April 2014.