The Winter Room

The Winter Room

Author	Gary Paulsen
Language	English
Publisher	Scholastic Books, 1989[1]
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	103
Awards	Newbery 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.

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]

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)

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 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). doi:10.21061/alan.v22i1.a.5. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
5. "The Winter Room". www.publishersweekly.com. PWxyz LLC. Retrieved 13 August 2015.