The Winter Room

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The Winter Room
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Author Gary Paulsen
LanguageEnglish
PublisherScholastic Books, 1989 [1]
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages103
AwardsNewbery Honor Book, 1990 [2]

The Winter Room is a Newbery Honor-winning short novel by 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, United States. Like many of his works, it evokes a harsh rural environment using vivid imagery, and has elements of a coming of age tale.

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Reception

According to Hurst, [3] it is a "brief, intense novel with incredible descriptive scenes", and Schmitz rates it as one of Paulsen's best. [4] Publishers Weekly found "Newbery Award-winner Paulsen never disappoints, and proves his talent again in this remarkably good tale." [5]

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References

  1. ↑ The Winter Room. OCLC   19353118 – via OCLC Worldcat.
  2. ↑ "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present". Association for Library Service to Children. Retrieved April 7, 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). doi:10.21061/alan.v22i1.a.5 . Retrieved April 7, 2014.
  5. ↑ "The Winter Room". www.publishersweekly.com. PWxyz LLC. Retrieved August 13, 2015.


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