The Winter Room Explained
| The Winter Room |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Scholastic Books, 1989[1] |
| 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, Pub date ? September 1989, hardback (1st edition)
- 1989, USA, Orchard Books, Pub date ? October 1989, hardback
- 1996, USA, Yearling Books, Pub date ? July 1996, paperback
- 1991, USA, Perfection Learning Prebound, Pub date ? September 1991, hardback
- 1991, USA, Bantam Doubleday Dell, Pub date ? April 1991, paperback
- 1995, USA, Yearling Books, Pub date ? February 1995, paperback
- 1996, ?, Laurel Leaf, Pub date 2 May 1996, paperback
- 1998, ?, Laurel Leaf, Pub date ? December 1998, paperback
- 1999, ?, Rebound by Sagebrush, Pub date ? October 1999, hardback
- 2005, USA, Thorndike Press, Pub date 16 February 2005, hardback (large print edition)
Notes and References
- Book: The Winter Room. OCLC Worldcat. 19353118.
- Web site: Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present. Association for Library Service to Children. 7 April 2014.
- Web site: Hurst. Carol. The Winter Room. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site. BooksInTheClassroom.
- Schmitz. James A.. Gary Paulson: A Writer of His Time. The ALAN Review. Fall 1994. 22. 1. 7 April 2014. 10.21061/alan.v22i1.a.5 .
- Web site: The Winter Room . www.publishersweekly.com . PWxyz LLC . 13 August 2015 .
