Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood (美國版)(Time Best YA Books of 2021)

為人熟知的求生小說家Gary Paulsen，這次帶來他生命中最真實的冒險。童年裡的疏離、北方森林的庇護、書本與故事的啟蒙，一步步形塑了他的寫作與人生。透過這本回憶錄，讀者能重新認識這位用文字與勇氣陪伴無數讀者的作者，感受最原始的生命力量。

A New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year
A TIME Magazine Best Children’s Book of the Year
A People Magazine Best Children’s Book of the Year
A Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year
An Evanston Public Library Best Book of the Year

A mesmerizing middle-grade memoir from three-time Newbery Honor–winning author Gary Paulsen—whose books have sold over 35 million copies worldwide—giving readers a new perspective on the origin of Hatchet and Paulsen’s other famed survival stories.

His name is synonymous with high-stakes wilderness survival stories. Now Gary Paulsen portrays a series of life-altering moments in his turbulent childhood as his own original survival story. If not for his summer escape from a shockingly neglectful Chicago upbringing to a North Woods homestead at age five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed him his first book at age thirteen, he may never have become a reader. Without his desperate teenage enlistment in the army, he would not have discovered his true calling as a storyteller. A moving and enthralling story of grit and growing up for newcomers and lifelong fans alike, this is the literary legend at his rawest and realest.

Gary Paulsen (1939–2021) wrote more than two hundred books for children and adults, including the recent father-son comedy How to Train Your Dad, and the survival adventure Northwind. Three of his novels—Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room—were Newbery Honor books. In 1997, he received the ALA’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for his contribution to young adult literature. His books have sold more than 35 million copies around the world. garypaulsenauthor.com