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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 796.5092 EAN: 9780027702217 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0027702219 Label: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: August 30, 1990 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Editorial Review: Product Description: For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - IN TUNE WITH HIS TEAM AND THE ARCTICPaulsen'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 a musher and as a human being. With gritty honesty Paulsen chronicles the painful and often humiliating earning ... Read More Rating:  - English Teacher Loves Gary PaulsenI 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 creatures he encounters: Scarhead, Hawk, Cookie, Columbia, Olaf, Obeah, the young dogs who discover fire, the doe that escapes into Paulsen's campsite, ... Read More Rating: - an awsome book from joey in buckley washingtonOne 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 a lot of weird things that happen, like a chipmunk-eating squirrel. In the Iditarod Paulsen endures freezing negative weather. There are rumors everywhere and some of them ... Read More Rating: - an awsome book from joey in buckley washingtonOne 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 a lot of weird things that happen, like a chipmunk-eating squirrel. In the Iditarod Paulsen endures freezing negative weather. There are rumors everywhere and some of them ... Read More Rating: - 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 while running the dogs, they saw a glowing light in the woods. It seemed to be person ... Read More |
