Woodsong
 | By Gary Paulsen Aladdin, 2007, Paperback Customer Rating: 90 reviews Recommend |
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A LIFE AS EXCITING AS FICTION
Gary Paulsen, three-time Newbery Honor author, is no stranger to adventure. He has flown off the back of a dogsled and down a frozen waterfall to near disaster, and waited for a giant bear to seal his fate with one slap of a claw. He has led a team of sled dogs toward the Alaskan Mountain Range in an Iditarod — the grueling, 1,180-mile dogsled race — hallucinating from lack of sleep, but he determined to finish.
Here, in vivid detail, Paulsen recounts several of the remarkable experiences that shaped his life and inspired his award-winning writing.
A School Library Journal Best Book
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Title: Woodsong
Sales Rank: 19628 in Books
Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Aladdin, 2007-05-08, Paperback, 144 pages, ISBN: 1416939393
Package Dimensions: 7.5 x 5 x 0.5 inches, 0.2 pounds
- IN TUNE WITH HIS TEAM AND THE ARCTIC
- Paulsen's choice of the word, SONG--see WOODSONG and DOGSONG--goes beyond the expected audible and musical implications, for it embodies man and animals' in-touch-ness with static and living aspects of the natural world. Less a cohesive story with a clearly defined plot and anticipated character development this book reveals the author's reflective observations of his own maturation--as… More reviews
- English Teacher Loves Gary Paulsen
- I have taught reading and writing to East Los Angeles - Hollenbeck Middle School - children of immigrants for the past three years. When I introduced "Woodsong" to my teens, I was worried that they would not be able to relate to a middle aged white guy in the snow. Not only do my "Americans of Mexican descent" love Paulsen but they love his dogs and other… More reviews
- an awsome book from joey in buckley washington
- One big race
This is the book by the name of Woodsong by Gary Paulsen. Most of the book takes place in Alaska at the Iditarod.
A lot of work
Gary Paulsen trained a lot for the Iditarod. When he's training a lot of humorous stuff happens, like when they come across a dead frozen deer. There were also… More reviews
- an awsome book from joey in buckley washington
- One big race
This is the book by the name of Woodsong by Gary Paulsen. Most of the book takes place in Alaska at the Iditarod.
A lot of work
Gary Paulsen trained a lot for the Iditarod. When he's training a lot of humorous stuff happens, like when they come across a dead frozen deer. There were also… More reviews
- One of Paulsens best!
- Woodsong
By
Gary Paulsen
Woodsong is a story about the author's adventure in Alaska. He writes
about running dogs and racing in the Iditarod.
This story begins in Anchorage, Alaska in the 1980s. Paulsen runs the
dogs which means hitching a dog team to a sled and taking them for a
run.
One time… More reviews
