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Since Brian is only a teen with no prior knowledge of surviving in the Canadian Wilderness, do you think he will survive? Brian really has a tough time in the days he is there with getting food to eat so he doesn't starve to death, the below zero temperatures, and trying to make a warm and comfortable shelter. Brian will definitely have to get out of the wilderness if he wants to survive.
Brian is probably from reading this book one is of the strongest and toughest people I know about. He had had one of the hardest times trying to live on the very little food he has but after he gets the big kill on the moose he is living life in dream land because now he has tons of food to eat and store. At first Brian really doesn't have much clothing to keep him warm so he is freezing in the below zero temperatures. During a cold winter night he will really need extra clothing because it gets down to 30 or 40 below zero and that could actually kill him if he doesn't stay warm. Now that the moose is dead he is able to have the Moose's hide to make a jacket out of which will be warmer and more comfortable. Brian's chances of staying warm all counts on him finding a warm and protective shelter. Brian actually ends up finding the perfect little shelter which keeps him warm because there is a little hole in the top so if he does have a fire going it will let the smoke out and he won't suffocate. I would think that that is a perfect little place for him to be comfortable and keep him out of the snow and cold weathers.
In conclusion I feel that Brian has great capability of staying in the wilderness forever. He was definitely able to hunt with his bow and arrows and get his own food along with surviving in the 30 to 40 freezing temperatures. Most of all he found a great shelter that could keep him safe forever. I think he will survive.
My response to this book is about a 9 out of 10 rating because it showed how one teen was able to survive at whatever came at him in the wilderness with no skills at all. I truly liked it because all the hunting that that Brian did with his bow and arrow was just amazing and very creative how he made the sharp tips for the end of the bows. Brian was great at finding his way around the wilderness considering he has never been there before and had no knowledge where to go. That's why Brian is such a great character because he learns everything just from true instinct. Brian is a very true person and you could learn a lot from him. I would recommend this book to anyone that loves the wilderness and loves being in the wild, especially if you are ready for a great adventure.

Critics Corner.
In the novel The Hatchet, a boy named Brian learns to survive the Canadian Forest for a whole summer, and many people wondered, what would have happened if Brian had not been rescued? What if he had to survive the winter? And that is how the novel, Brian's Winter came about. Brian's Winter describes how Brian struggles to survive in the Canadian Woods during the Fall and Winter seasons. Brian faces a lot of conflicts that have to deal with food, clothing, and his mentality. Will he manage to overcome them?
In this story Brian faces a lot of conflicts, which include food. In order for Brian to survive, he needed to eat. So, he had to overcome some obstacles to be able to eat. One example would be killing a moose! This was very tough for him, and almost killed him, but he managed to kill the moose, which gave him enough meat to last at least two or three months! And another example would be finding the deer that had already been killed. He was very fortunate to find this dear because he was starting to have a scarce amount of meat, this dear lasted him about two weeks. By having deer and a moose, this helped him with his clothing conflict. It was starting to get very cold as Fall passed by, so he started making more clothes such as a rabbit skinned vest, gloves, a jacket with a hood, and also snow shoes! And finally, another conflict would be his mentality. In the beginning of the story Brian was starting to miss his family a lot, and he was also starting to give up hope of getting rescued. But he managed to solve this problem by playing a game called the visiting game. By playing this game he was able to talk to people such as his parents, friends and other family members, which helped overcome his loneliness at least for a little while.
This book is an excellent book if you like to read adventure related books. What I liked about this book was the excellent descriptions that Gary Paulsen wrote, for example, when he says "The entire world was white, bright white with new morning sun glaring off and through it and so intense that it made his temples hurt." To me I can really imagine Brian looking outside and seeing almost an all new forest, and everything being bright white it could almost hurt your eyes! I also liked how he put a lot of emotion is his writing, like when he found the dead deer, you could almost feel the sadness that Brian was feeling. But something that I disliked about this book was at some points in the story, it would get a little confusing, almost like he didn't put enough detail into what he was writing. I really enjoyed Brian in this book, I think he was characterized very well

We really liked Brian's Winter. We wanted to know more about his dad because he was talking all about his dad but his dad was never in the book. Our favorite part was when he finds the survival kit. This was great because we were waiting for a part like that to happen. The River was a good sequel to Brian's Winter because it kept the pace going. We want another sequel to the River. We want to know more about Brian. We want to know how Brian got back to his house from the river. Avid Fans: Brian R., Ryan C. and Elijah J.

Author: Gary Paulsen
By: Melissa Williams
04/30/03
At the age of 13 Brian took a plane on vacation by himself. On this trip it was only him and the pilot who was driving the plane. During the plane ride the pilot was having a hard time and crashed the plane into a lake. Brian was very scared and wasn�t sure if the pilot was still alive or not. Brain got up and knew he wasn�t really hurt and he saw the pilot and saw that he was dead. Brain got out of the crashed plane and began to look around for a good place for him to stay, since he knew he would be in the wilderness for a while.
As the days went on Brian began to make himself arrows that he could kill animals with. It took him a while because he built small arrows for rabbits and larger ones for Deer. He also built himself a nice little home that he could stay in that kept him warm, and he would build a fire everyday just so he wouldn�t freeze. It started to get colder and the leaves were falling off and Brian knew right away that winter would be there soon. So he began to kill more animals and use their fur for gloves and other things to keep him warm. The next day brain was out in the forest looking for animals and he spotted a moose. So he tried to shot at it and when it hit the moose it didn�t die. It Charged at Brain and Brain didn�t know what to do. He tried to shot at it again but he was struggling. The moose tackled him and Brain and right as that happened brain shot it, but by the strength of the moose it knocked Brain out.
When Brain woke up He wasn�t sure if he was alive or not she he just tried to more every body part 1 at a time slowly. He realized that when he shot the moose it had killed it, and it was lying on top of him. Brain got up and he felt bad but he knew he needed the meat and fur. So he dragged it back to his house he built. That night right before Brain was going to fall asleep he heard a noise that sounded like a gun shot. He didn�t know what to think so he waited awhile and then he heard it again, But he just decided to go look in the morning. When he went in the morning he wasn�t finding anything not even tracks. He was standing up against a tree and all of a sudden the tree exploded and made the same noise he heard before. So really there was nobody shooting it was just trees exploding because it was so cold. After that it became very cold out and Brain and enough food to last him and the house he had made kept him same and warm. Soon it began warm again and it was easier for Brain to find food. One day Brain heard what sounded to be a gun shot, but it sounded just like it sounded before and that was really trees exploding. He though to his self � how could it be trees exploding when its warm out�. So he began to walk around the lake and look for people. When he got to other side of the lake he saw something that made him so happy and changed his life.
I myself would have to rate this book a 10. This book was one of the best books that I have ever read. I really enjoyed it because it had very good description and it was just a good book in general. I think that many kids my age and maybe older and younger would really enjoy this book, and I recommended it to younger kids to read because I�m pretty sure they will enjoy it.

Brian, a thirteen-year-old boy is lost in the wilderness for over 94 days and does continue to struggle to survive. Being lost in the wilderness is a big situation in which you need to know how to survive, know what is good and bad, and have a good idea of the area you are in.
Brian is once again struggling to survive but this time it is during the winter. During the book Brian gets many warnings from nature for the upcoming season. During the winter Brian struggles to find wood for warmth and meat for food. He comes across a moose, which was a great experience for Brian. He taught himself how to skin the moose and even collided with the moose. The winter season was difficult for Brian but through each day Brian is able to find more food, make more clothing, and even make his own snowshoes. But at the last instant he notices a straight line not made by nature. Could this be his escape who knows?
I believe that the story was very well written but still had some flaws. The one main flaw is that even though he hated his mother for cheating on his father and his father for going away, it does not affect his mental way of thinking. To change this I would create more panic reactions to his mood. I believe that the author used his writing style the best. It is so well written that anyone could visualize a good image and get a good idea of what the story is about. One example is the eeriness of the blank stare coming from the deer as he struck it down with his arrow. I believe the author's one main purpose is to teach others how to survive or to let them know how it feels to struggle for survival in the wilderness. But I do not believe that the writer had to do this because the wilderness is only dangerous if your not careful and do not know what you are doing. Overall I rate this book as being good with deep detail and many examples. I would recommend this book to someone only if they enjoyed survival and surprising novels. Much of the novel demonstrates how he survives and how he uses his previous knowledge to obtain new knowledge (observing the trees to find out that they were creating the popping noise). To be honest I would read this book twice because it is a great to read.

Imagine a story about survivng in the wilderness with just a hatchet, and you've got the novel Brian's Winter by Gary Palsen.
Brian had overcome living in the wilderness in a book called Hatchet. This book Brian's Winter is a sequel. Brian now has to survive in the winter. After surviving one adventure in the woods, Brian goes back out for another. This time he's in Canada's cold wilderness. He must survive the cold, wild animals, and starvation.
Will Brian be able to survive? Read Brian's Winter to find out.

MISSING, YOUNG BOY IN CANADIAN WILDERNESS. Brian's Winter is a great book, written by a great author, known as Gary Paulsen. A thirteen-year-old boy named Brian Robeson is visiting his dad in Canada for the summer. When he gets on a plane to go there, the pilot had a heart attack and died. That meant that Brian had to take over and try to land the plane in a safe place somewhere in the wilderness. Brian is faced with many different challenges to overcome to survive in the wilderness. Brian is left with nothing, no food, clean water, shelter only a hatchet. Brian wants to survive this crash very badly, so he gets to work thinking about how he can build a shelter and more weapons. Will Brian be able to survive scorching heat and freezing cold weather?

Brian's Winter was a very fun and great book to read because of the way the author, Gary Paulsen writes. Gary Paulsen writes with very great detail to make the readers feel like they are Brian. Brian's Winter is filled with many chapters that at the end there is a cliffhanger to make you want to keep reading. Once you begin to read this book, you do not want to put it down because of how interesting it is, and there's no good spot to stop at. After reading this book, I feel that I have learned a little something about what it would be like to be stranded in the wilderness for over 3 months with almost nothing. I also feel that Gary Paulsen wrote this book to explain to readers what it would be like to be in the wilderness and that its not as easy as some people think. Gary Paulsen picked a very good setting for this book because of the different weather changes. Canada has very hot summers and very cold winters with many feet of snow. Brian Robeson is also a very good person to be in this position because he is a very intelligent person. Over all I would rate this book at about a 9 because it's a great book and it gets the reader thinking about what's going on and what's going to happen. I would definitely recommend this book to other people because its very descriptive and it's a very easy book to understand and to read.

A Survival Story
You need to know how to survive in dangerous places like the Canadian Woods. You have to know what to do, where to go and when danger is around and maybe now at this much trouble, know how to cook with the food that is available at all this place. There is a story about a boy whom had to do all these things, he had to go to visit his dad and had to get on a plane. He was involved in a plane crash. He was the only victim that survived, even though he and the pilot were the only ones that were in the plane. The pilot seemed to have heart problems and had a heart attack while the plane was flying. Brian didn't know what to do he was in trouble and crashed into a lake. It was a really hard moment for Brian because all of his stuff was in the plane and he had to survive without it. He has to live with the food that the Canadian Woods has. He was able to kill a moose, rabbits, and a deer. Brian had to struggle to find a good home and seems to be really homesick. Brian learns many survival tips and many things about nature. Everyone can survive on their own wherever they are.
This book had many things that can lead a person to like the book. Brian was great character whom his life during a winter was not too pleasant he knew how to deal with problems he had to face and had a solution to whatever it was. But nothing was able to take away what he really missed, his family and those really good home dinners. Brian seemed to be really positive about everything but winter was really hard for him because he had to make himself knew warm clothes and be able to survive through it. Brian made himself knew clothes from all animals he got to kill. This book can be recommended to anyone whom don't realize and don't believe that there is a way to survive by him or herself wherever they are. This can help them see what to do because this book really gives a lot of details as to many kinds of survival tips and have to deal with the woods. I would rate this book an 8, for the fact that it seems to have a lot more things to tell about the Brian's life.

Martynas Preisaits
04/26/04
B-4
Surviving the wild
Imagine yourself in the wilderness, alone with no one else to take care of you, what would you do? How would you live and survive? A boy trapped in the wilderness w ho needed to live alone for more than six months. He ignored the signs the nature was showing him and when he finally understood that what is coming soon will decide if he will live or die.
Slowly winter came and he got ready by making new weapons. His lance and also his war bow. He gathered a lot of meat by killing a moose and a dear. He used the entire hide to make clothes and a rug to sleep on when the ground gets cold. He discovered that when it gets really cold trees start to explode, he also learned that wolves are hunters who hunt in gangs and how terrible it is to see a prey being eaten alive! A cruel winter is coming and he still has a lot to do to prepare for it.
This was good and had told about how to survive and live in the wilderness. The dislikes in the book that were found are that there should have been more intensity and the part where he was twice attacked by a bear and did not get hurt from him, sounded unreal. Brian was a good person for the story and I liked that the person who had no experiences in surviving in the Canadian wilderness, he was also not some big guy who could fights those big animals. I always thought that if someone gets lost in the wilderness, he or she has just a slim chance of surviving. This time Brian had to survive the winter, which seemed unreal. The last thing that I disliked about the story was the survival pack. He had a lighter, a rope, sleeping bag, pots to make food and some other stuff that helped him survive.
I would rate this book an 8 out of 10 because it could have had some more action and some more adventure. It was a lot easier for him with all the other stuff he had. I would recommend this book to everyone who is going to fly a plane to their relatives or friends in places they have never been and also to everyone else who likes to travel.

Brian's Winter By Gary Paulsen
Brian's Winter is about a 13 year old boy who was in a plane that crashed in Canada. Brian has been stuck in Canada for about 96 days. While Brian was alone he had to keep himself warm at nights, and occupied in the day. While it got closer to winter Brian knew that a tee shirt and jeans wouldn't last through below zero weather. Brian also knew that he had to have food to stay alive. Brian then decided to hunt. When he got [some game] he knew that he had to let it dry before actually being able to use it. When it dried he used the hide to make a long sleeve shirt, gloves, and boots. Later on in the story Brian kills a moose. He uses the hide to make snowshoes so that he can walk on the snow without sinking into it and without getting snow into his shoes. One night Brian hears these shots in the woods but he was too tired to go see what it was. A day passes and Brian decides to go check to see if he could find anything. He did he found a straight line but he didn't know what it was. Will Brian ever find a way out Canada and back to his family???
This story was very good! I really enjoyed reading such a descriptive book. I liked how Gary put so much description into this book. He made the killings that Brian did so full of life, it was like I was actually standing right there watching Brian [hunt] the animals. The only thing that I didn't like about this book was that Gary left the end of the chapters so suspenseful. I didn't like that because when my class read the book we didn't read it until a day later. So I was [anxious]because I wanted to know what happened to Brian when he tried to [hunt] the moose. I guess for an author that is a very good thing, to leave the audience hanging. Not for me I have to know what comes next.
If I had to rate this book it would be 4.5 out of 5. I know that is really good and I thought that this book was excellent. If people didn't know what kind of book this is, it is a Realistic Fiction. I am guessing that Gary Paulsen does a lot of these types of books.

Curt Lebensorger
Reading A-4
April 30, 2003
Brain's Winter
Brain's winter is about a teen aged boy who got lost in the wilderness who was on a plane to see his father. When he was on his way the plane went down and the pilot died, but Brian survived. Brian has a few supplies but not too many and needs to learn how to survive in the wilderness. First he comes across two wolves that sort of help him by letting him have the rest of the deer. Second he encounters a bear twice in this which gives him a lot of problems and would have killed him if the skunk Betty didn't come rescue him. Lastly he encounters a moose, he only attacked the moose for food in the winter but unfortunately he didn't know he was so strong and the moose did die but wounded Brain with a head collision knocking Brain out cold. Now what do you think will happen next will Brain be killed by these wild animals or will he be lucky and finally be able to come home to see his parents?
If someone asked me if I liked this book I would have to say yes. The reason I say this is because it always grabs your attention and makes you want to read the next chapter. Gary Paulsen has a way to add a twist to the end of each chapter for instance at the end of chapter 16 it says "it was too warm for trees to explode". When he said these things went into my head like is he getting his hopes up or is someone going to finally rescue him.
If I was a person that rates books and I picked up Brian's Winter I would say this book would be a 4 out of 5. I say this because it was good but sometimes I felt really bored. I felt bored because sometimes what I look for in a book is more then just one setting. This whole book basically took place with him in this one spot in the Canadian wilderness. Also the only reason this book made me want to read more is when at the end of each chapter there was always something there to get your mind going and thinking what will happen next. Then if I were to give this book a rating it would be a 4 out of 5.

Gary Paulsen lets you experience the story of a thirteen-year-old boy lost in the Canadian Wilderness and tries to survive the struggles of life in the lonely wild. He describes a young boy having to make his greatest change in his life, to be a man, in order to survive what he has waiting for him. Brian faces many challenges in order to survive, from hunting, to staying warm in the deadly cold winter nights. Brian has gone from nothing to being comfortable with a shelter and hunting strategies. He goes through experiences, which allow him to learn from and improve. He learns to stay occupied in activities and chores around his shelter. The story goes from the end of fall to the beginning of winter in which Brian has to gather food and make clothing out of the animals that he hunts. Now he must learn how to adjust to the cold winter nights, deep snow, and the unthinkably deadly cold weather. Will he be able to survive the hardest experience of his life?
I feel that the book was very realistic and described the setting very well. It taught you use what is around you to survive. It described how a young boy went into the wild with little knowledge and experienced conflicts to gain more knowledge. You have to use common sense and keep yourself occupied if not Brian would have gone nuts. The book gave us many survival tips such as using a hunted creature all the way. Paulsen also mentioned the better way to cook an animal, boiling it, to get all of the meat's nutrients. The book showed me that anything could happen and tells you to be very calm in bad situations. I really recommend this book for the youth because Brian is young and that gives you the chance to put yourself in his shoes. I would rate this book an eight because of its very good detail and the way it showed the wild. It lets young readers put themselves in the wild with Brian. Gary Paulsen is a great author and he made sure to describe the setting very well.

A young boy had to learn how to survive on his own. A boy named Brian Robeson had crash-landed in the Canadian Wilderness. The only tool Brian has was a hatchet.
Then he noticed the plane had started to come up to the surface of the lake and he had to swim out there and get what ever he could and found a first aid kit with everything he needed. So then it started to get cold and he had to make himself a shelter that could keep him warm when winter comes. So he started to build and made a hut thing with sticks and a bunch of mud to keep it sealed tight.
Then he was all set but his clothes he had on wouldn't do munch so he needed some animal skin and started to use rabbit fur but he would have to kill to many. Then he had to start to go for bigger game. And ended up face to face with a moose and he ended up fighting it and killed it. He made a vest and shoes covers kind of like boots. And it had kept him really warm so he was all set for the winter that was coming to him. Then the winter came and lots of it came so after a while he had to make himself some snowshoes.

The book Brian's winter is very good. It was very descriptive Gary Paulsen stated where he was coming from in the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes nature books or who would even like to learn how to survive off of Brian. The purpose for Gary writing this book would be that a kid could survive on his own just not parents. If I was to ever be lost in the wilderness I would probably want Brian to be with me cause he was a very smart boy and knew how to build things out of things from the forest. He never ever went crazy from not seeing a human in the longest time he always kept calm and just kept on going with his days making it seem he would be there for his whole life. If I was to rate this book out of 1-10 I would rate this book a 10 because it's the best book I had read in a long and it always had my attention.

Picture your self flying on a air plane and all of sudden your pilot had a heartattack and you dont know how to fly a plane and you crash. Well that is what Brian went through. When his planned crashed in the woods he had nothing to survive with only his hatchet and the suvial pack hed found in the book hatchet. To find out if he gets out of the cannadian woods alive or not read the book. I would not read this book if you have not read the first book hatchet.

Picture your self flying on a air plane and all of sudden your pilot had a heartattack and you dont know how to fly a plane and you crash. Well that is what Brian went through. When his planned crashed in the woods he had nothing to survive with only his hatchet and the suvial pack hed found in the book hatchet. To find out if he gets out of the cannadian woods alive or not read the book. I would not read this book if you have not read the first book hatchet.

Picture your self flying on a air plane and all of sudden your pilot had a heartattack and you dont know how to fly a plane and you crash. Well that is what Brian went through. When his planned crashed in the woods he had nothing to survive with only his hatchet and the suvial pack hed found in the book hatchet. To find out if he gets out of the cannadian woods alive or not read the book. I would not read this book if you have not read the first book hatchet.

Imagine hearing about a thirteen-year-old boy missing for about three to four months. You would think the boy is dead but what if he wasn't. What if he had survived in a wilderness?
Brian Robeson is a thirteen-year-old boy trying to survive through a harsh winter. The change from Fall to Winter hinted at the long road ahead of him. He has many obstacles he has to overcome. Brian's journey began when his plane crashed and he found himself stranded in the wilderness. From there he has to find a way to stay warm and survive this coming season ahead of him. He needs to learn how to hunt so that he can get food. I thought the toughest thing could be hunting because of all the wild animals. The animals change in the winter like the rabbit. The rabbit turns white to blend in with its environment and they also grow bigger feet to walk on top of the snow. He makes fires for warmth and also makes special clothing. Getting the wood isn't that hard since a forest of trees surrounds him. Even with all this he does to survive is it enough to survive through a Canadian winter?
This book was really good in my opinion because of its easy understanding and good imagery. It easy understanding helped me see the importance of survival tactics. He used words that were not only adaptable to a teenagers mind but also a adults mind. That's not all, the words did they created imagery in your head. The images were so vivid that you almost thought you were there.
I didn't like how his parents were going through the whole separation with him in the middle. They either should've took that out or had Brian a little more affected by it. Other than that I thought this book is great if I had to rate it from one to ten I would rate it a nine. I would rate it that because of the reasons I had given before, the easy understanding and the good imagery.

Brian's Winter is one of the best books I have ever read in my life. There are tons of reasons why and I am going to tell you about all of them. But, first we start out with a summary of the book.
The story takes place in Northern Canada, were it has lots of trees and is in the middle of no where. Brian Robeson is 13 years old and is stuck out in the wilderness all by himself. He learns many survival tips right when he sets up camp. He notices the animals will stay away from you if you stay away from them. He gets attacked by a bear twice and figures out that he left his food out. He hunts and makes things out of what he has such as; a vest out of Moose hid and snow shoes out of twigs and yarn. He thinks he heard gunshots when it was a false alarm and almost gets himself killed in the processes. And the ending you will have to find out for yourself.
Brian's Winter is a book that makes you think about the choices he has is to kill an innocent animal to survive. He makes you really think of your loved ones. It is hard to imagine what you would do in the middle of no where with animals that would kill you if they need too. Not seeing a human being for almost a couple of months. It would be very difficult to survive and cope with no one to talk to or none of the technologies you have at home. I would miss home a lot and I don't know if I could survive in the wilderness.
The rating I give this book is a 9 out of 10. Because the book has everything an award-winning book needs. Adventure, feeling, emotion and action. And this book has all of them put into one book. The author (Gary Paulsen) took a great deal of time to write this book and it really paid off! Out of the books I have read this one is definitely the best book.
Brian's Winter was very good and the next time you have a chance you should pick up the book and read it. It has everything you want in a book.

Brian's Winter is a book based on a real life situation. If you like to read realistic and survival books, Brian's Winter is a great book for you!
Brian Robeson is a 13-year-old boy and is stuck in the wilderness for over 4 months because his plane crashed. All he is left with is the emergency pack from the plane and his thoughts and ways of surviving. Hunting, building shelter and a fire, making clothing out of animal skin, making better bows and arrows, listening to natures signals, and playing the visiting game, are all ways this thirteen year old boy survives. Coming up with the "visiting game" was very clever for Brian to do. When playing the visiting game you are to imagine that a relative, friend, spouse, rock star, whoever, is in front of you. You then talk to them and tell them how you are feeling and what is going through your mind at that time. I think this was very helpful to Brian because it helped him cope with what he was going through.
Being at the age 13, and stuck in the wilderness all alone may lead to some difficulties as well. Brian often makes the mistake by ignoring nature's calls. The weather often changes and Brian notices it, but doesn't really do much about it. He also makes the mistake of trying to become friends with some of the animals. He makes one friend named Betty, she's a skunk and then tries to make another friend, but this is a big mistake. Brian tries to become friends with a bear and it doesn't work out the way he wants it to. Brian also makes the mistake by trying to build a fire in his shelter when it is airtight.
On a scale from 1-10, I rate this book a 9. It gives you a lot of details of what Brian sees, feels, hears, and different conflicts Brian has. It just amazes me how a 13-year-old boy can think of so many different ways to survive on his own. What would you do if you were stuck in the wilderness?

Brian�s winter
Brian Robeson, who is of the age of 13, was in a plane crash where everyone had died except for him. Brian found himself to be in the Canadian wilderness. He found himself having to save himself and learn the rules of the wilderness on his own. Luckily there was an emergency pack on the plane for him to use to at least have some kind of materials to have with him for all times. Brian had made himself a bow and arrow to use as a weapon for protection and to hunt animals. He came across many animals when he was in the forest: a skunk, deer, and moose. Some of the animals he used as a food supply or he used the fur to make clothing to keep himself warm. After time, he made himself a shelter to store his supplies in and to give him a place to sleep at night and to keep himself out of the cold for when winter came. Brian was always alone and he ever since he ahs been away from his parents he constantly thinks of them and brings back the memories of the times they had together to try not be remember that he was by himself and that no one was going to go and find him, at least not for awhile. Brian was stuck in the wilderness for 94 days. Will Brian ever be rescued and go back to living a normal life again?
This novel was overall interesting. This story was enjoyable from the beginning because of the way that it kept you guessing on what was going to happen next. There were always new experiences and survival tips that Brian introduced in the story. Gary Paulsen selected descriptive words to help me create a picture in my mind to understand the novel better. The book seemed very realistic.
On a scale from one to ten I would rate this book a nine. The book seemed to be very descriptive and kept me on task to what was going on in the story. I would say that the story could have been more graphically descriptive though.

I read the book Brian's Winter written by Gary Paulson. I think that Paulsen wrote this book for other kids as well as teens to read this book and learn how to survive in the wild if you were ever in Brian Robeson's situation. Gary Paulsen wrote over one hundred children books and a few adult novels. In the book Brian's Winter, how do you think thirteen-year-old Brian ever survived in the harsh, freezing weather? How did he learn how to hunt and kill wild animals? Well, in the next paragraph I will tell you a little about this action- filled novel.
To begin with, Brian was on a plan on the way to see his father in Canada. On the way there the plan crashes in the wilderness leaving Brian stranded for a long amount of time. He was really scared and didn't know what to do. He also began to get homesick. Brian began to think about his parents and pretended to see images of them. This really helped him to feel better. Days later, Brian saw a tip of the planes wing stick out of the water. Brian was able to go under and finds a backpack filled with things to help him survive. It contained, a gun with bullets, food, a knife, matches, and a book on how to survive. Brian hunted a deer and a moose. He used every part of the animal. Brian made a vest and later added sleeves, gloves and snow boots.
For being Brian's first time stranded in a wilderness, he was very smart in his actions he made. I rate this novel a three out of five stars. I gave it that rating because the same thing happens over and over again. For example, he wakes up in the morning and goes hunting, the next day he does the same thing. He will gather wood for a fire and will do it again not long after that. In my opinion, the ending is more interesting than the middle of the book. Read the novel Brian's Winter and find out if he is rescued or if he dies.

Brian�s Winter critic essay
The book Brian�s Winter was based on a suffering, but learning, fourteen year old boy who had been trapped in the wilderness for quite a few months. At the beginning of this book Brian had found limited supplies on the plane that had crashed. The supplies included a .22 rifle, a hunting knife with a compass attached, pots and pans, a fork, a spoon, matches, two butane lighters, a sleeping bag, a foam pad, a first aid kit, fishing supplied and several packets of dried food. With these items Brian had to survive a winter in the Wilderness, hence the title. To do so Brian had to hunt animals and use every last piece of them to survive. Throughout the book you witness Brian go through many dangerous learning experiences that teach him a lot of survival skills.
In my personal opinion this book was terrible. To me it was one huge bore. First off, the plot was very uninteresting especially in the way the author (Gary Paulsen) had written about it. Also while reading you are quite positive of the ending that will come upon. Lastly on the negative side, it made me angry when the author would write about how the starving boy in the wilderness (Brian) had wished he never had killed the animals he had. This is the most unrealistic thing I have ever come across; any human being who would have starved if he or she did not hunt would not regret it in the slightest.
One thing I did enjoy about this book was the details. The author did a great job of projecting images in my head. One more thing I enjoyed about the book was the actual survival tips placed in it. These tips would actual benefit you some in the wilderness. On a scale from 1-5 I give this book a 2, mostly because of the lame storyline. This was my first survival book and will be my last.

A Young Boy Trying to Survive
A young thirteen-year-old boy named Brian is lost in the Canadian Wilderness, do you think he will make it out alive? In this novel Brian does not know any survival skills. The survival skills that he must learn are hunting skills, clothing, and recognizing nature=s signal. I will tell you more about these skills in my next paragrgh.
The hunting skills that he learns are walk quietly towards the animal, be 15-20 feet away from the animal, and do not make any noises. He learns that he needs bigger and more powerful weapons, so he makes a new bow and arrow and a spear. Brian makes a lot of clothing. The kinds of clothing he makes are a vest with hood and sleeves, gloves, and snowshoes. The way Brian gets his materials are by killing rabbits, killing a moose, and taking strings from his sleeping bag. When Brian put on his snow shoes it made him a better hunter. Last of all he recognizes natures signals. He learns that he should pay attention to the weather. He didn't=t bother about the weather but when winter came he started to pay attention.
Personal Reviews
This was a very good book because it was descriptive and I never wanted to stop reading it. There was a very descriptive part when Brian went hunting for the deer, it was talking about how you could only see Brian=s head, and it said that he was walking very slowly towards it and then shot it. I would give this book a 9 out of 10. There was only two parts why I did not like this book was kind of to short and because it ended too short. Brian was smart and a patient kid, because he knew how to make a bow and arrow, a spear, and all kinds of clothing. He is a patient kid because he never gave up on the idea that he would make it out alive.

Adrian Nunez Brian's Winter

By Gary Paulsen

The story Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen was really good that it felt so realistic. When something was happening, I could picture it going on in my head. For an example, "then he ate quietly, thinking of his mother and father, and when he finished his thanks giving it was dark, pitch black, so he crawled into his bag to go to sleep and just had closed his eyes and then he heard the gun shot" ( chapter 12, page 96). For this I could picture him eating his food and thinking of his parents, then he starts picking up his mess, after that I could see him cuddling in his sleeping bag closing his eyes then he hears the noise and his eyes pop right open. Something else I could see really well was, "the one that left whined softly and wiggled, trying to come and get him to pet the dog, and Brian stood there, stunned, beyond the dogs he saw a crude log shelter covered with brush and a skin door" ( chapter 17, page 129). For this I could see Brian looking at the dogs and being shocked, then he sees the house and his mouths drops open and his eyes starts tearing.

Something I learned in this novel is to never quit because if you do, you'll never succeed. Just like Brian he was a 14 year old boy who was in a plan crash but survived it. Then he had to face the bear but he just didn't stand there, he kicked it. He then made friends with the skunk. Later on he then made a shelter and he started hunting for rabbits but knew not to rely on the riffle that was in the emergency pack from the plane so he made bows and arrows. Since the weather was changing into winter, he used the fur from the rabbits into a vest. Then he went hunting for this huge moose but it went and tackled Brian but he stabbed it with his hatchet. At first he didn't know how to get the moose back to the shelter since it was so heavy, then he came up with the idea of chopping it up into small pieces. Brian then made snow shoes out of hide so he won't sink into the snow. When he was done with the moose meat he went hunting for deer. When he saw one, he went closer then shot it right above the heart. After he shot it he felt bad but there was nothing he could do, he just ate it. Then one day he saw tracks so he followed them and when he came to the end he saw dogs and a family. He went and talked to them and told them his story.

When I was done reading the book I considered it to be a realistic fiction. This is because the book itself was made up but it can happen in true life. For instance, a plane crash could appear in life and some one can get stranded on an island. Some one can make weapons and clothing's out of animals. Also some one can go hunting for rabbits, moose, deer's, and Ect. These are some examples why this book is realistic fiction.

Some things that I liked about the book were I could picture everything going on in my head good. Another thing that I liked a lot was the ending of the book of how he made it home safe but something else that I didn't like about the ending was that they didn't sow how he came home and how the parents reacted. Another thing that I didn't like was how they started the book. Something else that I didn't like was how fast a 14 year old boy learned how to make tools, hunt, and skin and cut animals up within the 54 days he was on the island, that was a little exaggeration, but that's my opinion though.

The way that I felt about the book was different through out the whole story. At first I felt sad for him that he was in the plane crash and was stranded on the island, because if that was me I would have freaked out and probably die. Then I felt good for him that he learned how to make tools, hunt, and to be able to skin and cut an animal. I then felt bad for him that he didn't even have warm close through out winter, I would of froze to death because I get cold when its barely 50 degrees out. Then at the end I felt really happy for him that he found the family and made it home safe.

Some facts about Gary Paulsen are that he was born May 17, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As he was getting older Paulsen was getting interested in reading, and every day he would go to his basement and read. Then at the age of 14 Paulsen ran away from home with the carnival because his parents had a drinking problem. As he got older Paulsen worked many jobs, until one day as he was working as a satellite technician it came suddenly to him that he would become a writer. Then in 1983 Paulsen ran the Iditarod then ran it again in 1985 a second time but suffered angina and was force to give up his dogs. It is Paulsen's belief that it is the young people that inspire him to write. He has written more than 175 books and some 200 articles. He gets as many as 200 letters a day from readers telling him they felt Brian Robeson's story in Hatchet was left unfinished by his early rescue, before the winter came and made things really tough. They wanted to know what would happen if Brian were not rescued, if he had to survive in the winter. Paulsen says, "Since my life has been one of survival in winter, running two Iditarod's, hunting and trapping as a boy and young man, the challenge became interesting, and so I researched and wrote Brian's Winter, showing what could and perhaps would have happened had Brian not been rescued."

There is a thirteen-year-old boy stranded in the Canadian Wilderness with not many supplies in hand and no connection back to home. Brian has been living in the wilderness for over 54 days. The only equipment that Brian has is a hatchet, parka, and a small bow. Through out Brian's Winter Brian faces a lot of unique challenges. Brian is living in a camp built by him out of fallen pieces of rock with a lake close by. The main problem that Brian faces in the novel is Winter. Brian has been able to survive the Fall but now he needs to be prepared for not only snow but also freezing temperatures. How will Brian be able to face all the extra challenges that the Winter will bring? Brian does realize that his clothing will not be sufficient to keep him warm, so he does make new and improved clothing. Even though Brian has a soft heart for hunting animals he does develop very good hunting skills. But how much more will Brian be strong enough to face, does he really have it in him to defeat the Canadian Wilderness?
If you are looking for one of those adventures exciting novels, you are looking for Brian's Winter. I would recommend this novel for younger teens. The author, Gary Paulson, puts a lot of detail into the story to give you that feeling as if you were right there as the character yourself. Brian's Winter has a very original plot to it that most other books don't have. One knock down on the book readers may have is that it rushes into the ending and it isn't as exciting as the rest of the adventure, although the ending is surprising. I would give this novel a rating of 7 out of 10, because I thought it was a very well-written story with great detail and excitement, but the ending needs improvement.

Brain's winter, by Gary Paulsen was about a boy named Brian Robeson. Brian was on his way to visit his father for the summer and his plane crashed killing the pilot, and stranding Brian in the wilderness alone. Brain got the necessary materials and survived during the summer. Now winter is coming, can Brian survive the bitter cold of the winter?
Brian had his ups and his downs during the winter. Brian had to figure out how to make several different tools to survive such as a bow and arrow, all types of clothes, a lance, and snowshoes. Brain also had a few life and death encounters. A bear came to his camp twice and he probably would have been killed if it weren't for his pet skunk. He was also attacked by a moose that he was trying to hunt and barely survived that. He was also almost killed by an exploding tree, due to the bitter cold weather, that he was standing by and a huge sliver just missed his head. He also had to go out in the freezing cold to hunt and find firewood.
I enjoyed this book for several reasons and they are once you get started reading this book you don't want to stop. You read one chapter and want to go on to the next to find out what will happen next. Another reason I enjoyed this book was because of the fact that that he was stranded in the wilderness and I like to camp and can relate to him a little.
If I had to rate this book on a scale from one to ten I would give it an eight because it was interesting and existing, but I did not like the ending. It didn't give enough information or background. I would recommend this book to anyone because it is a must read for all readers. Over all it is a really good book and keeps you on the end of your seat wanting to know what will happen next.

What would you do if you got into a plane accient and were stranded in the Canadian WIlderness? That is just what happened to 13 year- old Brian Robeson. Brian had to learn how to survive on his own without anyone to help him! He had no one to tlak to except for the animals, Brian had to make tools and weapons for hunting and he also had to make things in order for him to survive. Brian was brave enough not to give up!! If Brian had given up then he wouldn't have been living very long but he had faith in himself and kept saying to himself that he can do this.
It's not easy to survive in the Canadian WIlderness; But Brian did. He went through alot of tough times, He had made friends with wolves and a skunk, Betty; he had been attacked by a bear. Brian also had to deal with the winter. Winter in Canada was HARSH. He had to hunt for food during with the wintertime, which was horrible. He had to make warm clothing for himself so he wouldnt freeze to death; and he started to get lonely and he would talk to himseld and then animals. He wouls sometimes pretent that the animals were his family and friends (they technically were his friends).
I kind of liked this book and i kind of didn't. I liked it because it taught you survival tips and it told you and helped you realize how bad a Canadian Winter can be. I didn't like it because it really didn't interest me that much. I wasn't getting into the story as much as I thought I would. On a scale of 1-5 i would give this book a 3 becase it really showed you and taught you about the wilderness and because it didn't really interest me. The book didn't pull me in as you woulod say, but if you like these kinds of books that are about survival then you would like this book.

In this essay I will be writing about Brain's Winter. This will include the title of the book, author, and a summary of the novel. I will also write my rating of this book. I will write about the author's purpose of the novel, and about the best literary element that the author uses in this novel. I will also be writing about the main character of this novel Brian Robeson.
The title of the novel is Brain's Winter. The novel was written by Gary Paulsen. The purpose of this novel was to inform us and teach us how to survive in the wilderness. I agree with the author's purpose of writing this novel. I think that it is important for us to know how to survive in the wilderness.
The literary element that was handled by the author would be the characters. Gary Paulsen gave a good description of the characters like Brian Robeson. He gave me a good image of all the characters in this novel. The main character in this story was Brian Robeson. I think I would like to have Brain help me to survive in the wilderness. I think he learned a lot from his experience in the wilderness and he would be a big help.
On a scale of 1 to 5 I would rate this book a 3. The basic reason is because of the great descriptions that the author gave us. In the beginning there wasn't a lot of action and excitement but towards the middle and the end of the novel the excitement picked up with the moose encounter and all the hunting that he did. I thought that the author wrote a great book and the only bad thing was in the beginning of the book. He wasn't as excited as the rest of the book was.
In conclusion I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read exciting and adventurous books. This was an overall pretty good book. It was written well.

As you know thirteen- year- old Brain Robeson was rescued in the book Hatchet, but what if Brian wasn�t rescued. What if Brain had to learn to survive in the freezing cold Canadian winter with only a hatchet? It is extremely crucial that Brian takes everything he has learned and uses it to his best interests.
In the book Hatchet Brain came across many dangerous obstacles and in the process learned how survive in the wilderness but now it�s even more vital that Brain learns how to stay alive because now Brain is going to have to live through the treacherous winter and the Canadian wilderness.
Brain�s Winter was an outstanding book. I have no complaints, but I do admit Gary Paulsen does leave you hanging. Don�t worry though because in the book The River he explains everything. I thought this book was excellent. This book definitely lives up to Hatchet.
I rate Brain�s Winter an 8 out of 10 because it is an exceptionally outstanding book as well as Hatchet considering survival books aren�t particularly what you would call my favorite type novels. The reason why I give this book a high rating is because Gary Paulsen is an extraordinary writer. Maybe because most of the stuff he writes about. He has experienced himself one way or another though out his life. He is so detailed like he knows exactly what he is talking about. That�s what makes this book so interesting. I definitely recommend it.

Brian's Winter

Gary Paulsen

Jamie B

I have never been stranded in the wilderness for months at a time but the author of Brian's Winter Gary Paulsen really pulled me into the book where it felt like I was Brian at points in the novel. The book Brian's Winter gave me a lot of laughs but also made me feel a sign of disappointment mainly because Brian is doing the best he can to make it out alive but didn't know how much time he has left. Will Brian make it out alive or will his life be taken suddenly?

The theme of the Book Brian's Winter I would have to say would be.. "When life takes a downturn get right back up and make new of what you have". Brian defiantly has a lot of difficult times in his life like going to bed at night wondering if he will make it out alive, trying to figure out what he is going to have for dinner, and how he is gonna keep warm. All of these things really impacted Brian's life because they are the things that matter the most and are the key to survival. Each day Brian would set a different goal for himself and whether he accomplished it or not he moved on. That is the thing I thought was most interesting thing about Brian he was always in the mood to make new of what he had a lost and how he regained the things he had lost when his life took a sudden turn.

This book has two genres in one. It is an adventure and a mystery. You are always wondering what will happen next. You have tons of questions going through your mind. What is going to happen to Brian next? Is he going to die? You are probably wondering well doesn't that sound a little harsh, it is the truth. Brian is an inch away from death now that winter has taken a toll on his life. It is adventure also because he is out in the wilderness where he is exploring the world around him no matter how dangerous the world really is. That is what he is about to find out and it may not be such a good idea when he is this desperate.

The writing style is very easy to follow so for all you middle school kids this would be a book for you. There isn't really anything in the book that is way over a head of a middle scholar. You may get a little confused at some points in time when Brian is describing how the weather is changing and how it is effecting what Brian is able to do now that the temperatures are frigid. I personally don't like the writing style because it gets confusing at sometimes and I really don't know what happens. I think that Gary's tone gets very serious at times when Brian is lost and confused but when things are going Brian's way than that is when his tone changes.

This is the part in the story when Gary's voice would become more serious. " He awakened when he had slept enough and looked out of the shelter by cracking the door. It was cold and low and gray and raining, a dismal rain much like the one that had lasted so long earlier in the fall, and he kindled the fire with dry wood he'd set aside the night before when he'd seen the clouds moving in". As you can see the weather is drastically changing and all Brian has left is the fire which he relies on to keep him warm.

Another quote is where Brian is on the verge of dying because of the 6-700 pound moose that is on top of him. " A great weight something heavy in him. His mother was calling for him to come back. He was little again, a small boy and playing outside, and his mother was calling for him to come inside but he couldn't move because there was a huge weight on him, holding him keeping him from coming home. This is the part when Brian has a flashback of when he was a child how his mother is calling him in the house when he had a family. At this point in time you really don't know if Brian is dead or not because of how the authors mood is and the words he uses in this section.

As you can see Brian overcomes many obstacles and regains all of what he had lost in these long weeks, even months of the winter season. Brian's winter is a must read book. It is for guys and girls and really gets you thinking about what kind of things you have in life compared to what Brian had. So if you like real like adventures and mysteries all in the same book read Brian's winter.

Brian's Winter

By Gary Paulsen

Review by Samantha S.

I've never been in a situation of life and death before, but Gary Paulsen allowed me to feel, what it's like to be in one. Brian has already been in the wilderness for about 54 days, on his own. His plane crashed and he later discovers an emergency bag in the plane, where he has some useful objects. It's just the beginning of Fall and Brian doesn't know the true meaning of the word Winter. Brain's Winter is about how Brain survives the winter and hopefully gets rescued. Brain has many obstacles in his way, but that doesn't stop him. Brain's Winter is also a sequel to the book Hatchet.

Brian starts to get use to the wilderness and becomes more aware of the nature, all around him. He observed that different animals defend their territories differently. The wolves would mark their territory by peeing on trees, but the birds would defend their territory by singing beautiful tunes. He thought the animals would respect him, just like all the other animals do, if he marked his territory. Just as winter was approaching, Brian finally saw some of the warning signs nature was giving him. The clouds had changed from a blue to a grey, the leaves on trees had already changed color, and the weather was getting just a little cooler than before.

Brian thought about his food supply as well as how he would be able to get his food. Brian remembered seeing arrowheads in a store he had visited and tried to remember what they looked like and how to make them. Brian was able to hunt many animals. He used the fishing lines and sinkers, from the emergency pack, to catch fish for when he wasn't able to hunt any rabbits or fool birds. He saw two wolves with a leg in their mouth and decided to go where they came from. Brain found a young deer with the head and shoulders left. All Brian did was smile and took the left of the meat back to his shelter. A bear runs into Brian's shelter because of the smell of the meat, but his friend, Betty the skunk, saves him by spraying him with her foul odor.

He also has to decide on ways to keep him warm. He has a sleeping bag that keeps him warm, but not warm enough. He tries to make a fire in his shelter, but all the smoke won't let him breathe. He makes a chimney, so that he can have a fire in his shelter without suffocating him. Another way Brian tries to keep warm is he makes a vest out of rabbit skin. Later, he makes sleeves and boots out of skin, for extra warmth. In order to keep the fire going, Brain makes an insulted door to keep the wind and cold air out of the shelter.

I like this book because Gary gives you a lot of survival skills; you never know when you might need them. "There could be only one reason for a larger arrowhead- to kill a larger animal." (Paulsen 27-28) I enjoy reading it because I learned something new. "Dark came suddenly at four in the afternoon and he sat in the dark for a while and thought on the problem and was leaning back gazing into the fire when he remembered the rabbits. They grew larger feet." (Paulsen 105) Before I read this I didn't know that rabbits grew larger feet during the Winter and I didn't know that they changed color either. I also enjoyed reading this story because I learned stuff about Gary before and found out that he writes books about outdoor activities and things that happened to him. The one thing that I dislike about this book is I think he could have made a better ending. After reading and reading, people want to know exactly what happens to Brian, they get curious. I feel that overall Gary Paulsen is a good writer because he got a library card when he was young and he has been reading other people's stories ever since.

In conclusion, Brian's Winter is the sequel to Hatchet, another novel Gary has published. If you ever see pictures or illustrations in one of Gary's books then you know that Gary's wife illustrated them because she illustrates his books. If I were to rate this book to other children, I would give it an eight because the ending was so good but all the information is accurate.

Brian's Winter

Gary Paulsen

Viktorija Mazulyte

Can you imagine yourself in the wilderness all by yourself? Having no one to talk to, not having all the things that you do now, such as: good food, internet, TV, CD player, nice-warm room that you can stay in, and all the other good stuff. Well that's how the character in the book "Brian's Winter", written by Gary Paulsen, lived for for fifty four days. I can't imagine anyone surviving in conditions like that.

It all happened in the winter when a plane crashed because the pilot got a heart attack, and only a boy, named Brian survived. He was only fourteen years old and he didn't know what was waiting ahead of him. Most major difficulties that he had to face were that he had to make himself a shelter, get himself food by hunting and fishing, and also keep away from all the danger that might be in Canadian wilderness. We can't forget that we are talking about a fourteen year old boy who never was in any situation like that, it would be awful to anyone but for this boy it was especially hard.

Brian was a smart boy, so he found out the way to make himself comfortable. He made himself a shelter, he went fishing, where he met his first "friend" a huge bear, he hunted rabbits, later on when he made himself a big bow he hunted moose and deer. He did everything by himself. I don't know where he had all that imagination how to make an arrow, a bow, clothes, and how to make food form animals.

He played this "visiting" game, so he wouldn't be bored and also wouldn't go crazy. He would sit down by the lake and look far, far away and imagine in his mind that some people that he wanted to talk to such as mom, dad and friends talked to him. Brian would talk out loud, tell whoever he was talking to what he was doing, and ask them how the things are working out back home without him. That's what he did for not wanting to feel lonely.

Brian would think back about home and think about all things like sitting down by TV, eating snacks that were so good. But that made him homesick. He missed his mom and dad, all his friends. It was hard time for him, a teenage boy living by himself like nowhere, somewhere in the wild. But as the time went by he felt more and more that the entire wilderness was his home. I don't know how he lived there for whole fifty four days and didn't die from cold, he didn't starve, he didn't get killed by some of the wild animals living there in the forest and just waiting for some meat to come.

This story made me see how hard life could be. Now when we think about that and that is wrong we are not happy, we don't appreciate enough all things that make us comfortable and happy. The reason why I liked this book was that this book made me think of how hard life could change just in one day. I didn't like this book because I don't usually read these kinds of books. I am not the biggest fan of survival books and all the wild, hunting. But still this book had a point and it was good.

Gary Paulsen is a very famous writer. He has written whole lot books about adventure and the wild. He mostly writes for young children. He liked to go dog sledding when he was able to. I would say that this book "Brian's Winter" was a realistic fiction adventure novel. The most important thing that I learned was that you have to appreciate what you have because one day you might lose it all.

So if you want to find out how a fourteen year-old Brian went through all of these difficulties, you should definitely read this book!

Brians Winter Book Review

The book Brians winter is a very interesting book. Gary Paulsen is defiantly able to capture the theme of being stranded in the wilderness. The story is about a young boy named Brian, whose plane crashed, killing the pilot while he was on his way to visit his father. Which means he is left by himself to survive in the Canadian woods?

Brian is a 13 year old boy. For his age I think he is very smart. At that age I wouldn't be able to do some of the things he did. He was able to teach himself new things about the woods and the plants and animals around him. He is also not a person who gives up very easily and you can tell he is the type of person who will go all the way and won't give up.

I found this book quite interesting because of all the different survival skills. I think that it is very interesting that Brian is able to survive all alone in the wilderness with barley any food, good shelter, clothing or and good tools or equipment to help him out. Especially during the very cold winter.

At certain times, I almost felt as though I was there in the book along with Brian. I think that Gary Paulsen is so good at describing everything, especially when he is talking about the animals and the scenery around Brian. He is also good at describing the way he prepares his food and the way he was able to make clothing and other things. Throughout the book you feel as though you are right there.

Another favorite thing I had about the book was learning about all the different animals in the Canadian wilderness. I never knew you could make so many things from a moose or that if you killed one that the moose meat would last you a very long time. And also that rabbits fur changes in the winter and that they are able to run across the snow without falling trough.

There are many other things I learned from reading Brians winter. I never knew that trees explode when it is freezing cold out. I also didn't know that to use animal hide you have to dry it out by the fire. When you do dry it out it makes it shrink. I also never knew it was possible to fix you bow with the string from a sleeping bag. Or that you could make snow shoes with little or now supplies.

I think that the main theme of this book is how to survive in the Canadian wilderness on you own, also the fact that it is possible. I don't think that I would be able to last that long but after reading Brians winter I think that it would be hard but defiantly possible.

I was also surprised that Brian was able to keep himself sane. He had absolutely no one to talk to or to keep him company besides the animals. He was also able to make of little games to keep himself entertain. I think that, that is very smart of him.

Overall I liked this book a lot. I think that its one of those books that grabs your attention from the first couple of chapters. Even the first couple of pages. There are many parts in it that are very suspenseful and make you want to keep reading. I would defiantly recommend it to others. There is only one thing I would change about this book and that is the ending. I don't really like it because I think that it just ends and it leaves a ton of information out.

Brian's Winter

Gary Paulsen

Mary Sacharczyk

Would you be able to survive in the cold Canadian forest? Brian is by himself and only can depend on nature for a chance for survival. Can Brian make it or will he just get to a point that he will just give up?

In Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen, it's about a boy who got into a plane crash in the Canadian forest and for 89 days he went through many difficult times of facing weather, wild animals, food, and shelter. Do you get lonely sometimes? Well during Brian's journey he went through many lonely times and he made up a game called "The Visiting Game." The game makes him help not be so lonely and it helps him remember all of the memories he had with his family and friends. He runs into many animals in the book. For instance, a bear, a deer, a bulk, a skunk, a rabbit, ect. This book would help if you go on a camping trip or did get into a plane crash in the wilderness, which you would know how to survive by using skills that Brian used on his journey.

This book is definitely an adventure. It's an adventure for Brian because of him trying to survive in the Canadian wilderness. I liked and disliked the book, Brian's Winter. I like some parts like when he comes up with great ideas about making snow shoes so his feet won't sink into the snow. He would use everything off an animal when he hunts. He would skin the deer or rabbits and use their skin for clothing to stay warm. Another reason why I also liked this book is because Brian would also give many survival tips throughout the book. But there were some dislikes about the book. For instance, some parts were confusing when I was reading. Like when he would describe things about nature, it was just difficult to understand it. But otherwise I did enjoy reading the book.

"All I need is some barbecue sauce," he said aloud, grease dripping down his chin. "And a coke....." (86, Paulsen) I like this quote that Brian said because it means that he misses his own type of food he used to eat and how hard it was for him to kill animals because he never did before. "Not again-not rain...." (86, Paulsen) This quote makes it seem how difficult Brian is trying to survive on how many problems he go through to live and to be safe. "This," he said, sitting by the fire, "is as bad as it gets . . ." (71, Paulsen) This quote kind of made me feel sorry for Brian of how he's trying really hard to survive with all of the snow and how cold he gets without any heaters and he would get frost bites.

The author of Brian's Winter, Gary Paulsen lived a very hard life when he was younger. His parents would abuse him, had drinking problems, and had a bad education. So what made Gary survive was to become an author, to read and write. So I think that he likes to write about survival and that no matter what kind of situation you are in, you can and will survive. Like what Gary went through in his childhood life, or what Brian went through in the Canadian wilderness. Or the man who had to cut his own arm off when he was on the rock, by the way became famous now for doing it. That the true meaning of this book is that there is always a chance for survival and never to give up.

Brian's Winter

Gary Paulsen

Ewelina Ustupska

It had been 89 days since the plane crash, and Brain lived each day in hope of being rescued the following day. It never happened. In Brian's Winter, Gary Paulsen describes the adventures and skills of a 13-year old boy named Brian. After, Brian survived a plane crash where the pilot had died; Brian had to survive not only a summer, but the bitter winter in the Canadian Wilderness, until his rescue. Brian had to make use of what he had. The lesson that I think Gary is trying to teach his readers is to never give up, and always look a solution even when you think there is no way out, because there always is.

Brain's Winter starts out with Brian living in the wilderness for 89 days already. Brian had grown with the wilderness and as days went by Brian stopped thinking about being rescued and started concentrating on surviving the next day. What Brian didn't become conscious of, was that winter was right around the corner. He didn't notice the signs that nature was sending him about the weather changing and that he should start to prepare. "That made the rifle worthless, at least as far as being a gun was concerned, and he swore and started back to the camp to get his bow and arrows and in the movement of the things he completely ignored the warning nature had put on his cheek just before he tried to shoot the rabbit." (Paulsen, 8)

In many parts of the book, I felt as if the author had gone in-depth about the hunting and skinning of the animals. I didn't like those parts because I don't think it's a very interesting subject as well as it made me just want to put the book down. Paulsen also went into great detail about how to make the snowshoes, bows as well as the arrow heads. "He worked thin notches into the round end and mounted the pint in one of his hardwood spears, carefully splitting the wood back and then tying the head in place with a think strip of deer hide."(Paulsen, 62) Therefore I didn't like the book in many different parts. I enjoyed reading Brian's Winter in parts where he described the bear attacks because they were more interesting as well as suspenseful.

Gary Paulsen loves the being outside and in the nature. Therefore I wasn't surprised that Brian's Winter took place in the Canadian Wilderness. Many of Paulsen's books take place outside as well as in surviving situation that are realistic fiction, just like Brian's Winter. I would recommend this book to many boys, but I don't think many girls would be interested in reading it. It wasn't one of my favorite books, but benefited from reading it. It made me think of how I would act if I was in that situation and if I would do some of the things Brian did in order to survive. I learned many great tips which I hope I won't have to use because I prefer to never be in a situation like Brain's.

Gary Paulsen describes the skills and abilities Brian learns during the time spent in the wilderness, in the book Brian's Winter .Brian has to hunt for food in order to live as well as protect himself from the wild animals. But his biggest problem is the freezing winter to come.

How would you feel if you were a teenager that had to survive in the Canadian Wilderness alone? This is what Brian had to go through in Brian's Winter, a realistic fiction novel written by Gary Paulsen. Brian had to hunt to find food, get wood to stay warm, and make items in order to survive. All of this played a role in either life or death for Brian. He had to adapt to the climate and learn survival tips to survive these harsh conditions.

Hunting was a major need for Brian in the wilderness. Food was a mater of life or death. Brian hunted many animals from deer and moose to rabbits. When Brian hunted he would either use a rifle or a bow an arrow. An example of Brian's hunt is "The arrow jumped form the string and he saw the feathers fly straight away from him and at the moose and slam into the moose's neck just above the center of her chest" (Paulsen, 78). This is when Brian shot the moose with his arrow. This is what Brian had to do in order to get food and survive.

Brian needed wood to keep warm. Brian would need to travel out and find trees to use for wood. Once he found the trees he would cut them down and drag it back to the camp. He would have to take many trips back and fourth to get the wood back to the camp. Getting wood would usually take about a day. Brian would usually stock up on the wood so he would have enough wood for a few weeks.

Brian would make items in order to survive. He made different items from boots, a vest, and a parka to snowshoes and snow boots. Brian made these items from the bones and other materials from the animals that he killed. This is an example of Brian using the snowshoes that he made. "The snow was powdery and the shoes didn't keep him right on top of the snow as he thought, but they kept the snow away from his legs" (Paulsen, 109). The snowshoes made it easier for Brian to get around. The parka kept Brian warm during the harsh cold of the winter months. If Brian didn't have the parka he might of froze to death. He used the deer hide to make the vest to keep him warm. He also used the deer hide to put around the boots to keep himself warm.

In Brian's Winter I like how the author makes you keep reading to find out what happens. I liked he would use detailed examples to put pictures into your mind. I also like how Brian handled problems. There was nothing that I didn't like about the book. I think that if you like a good adventure that Brian's Winter in a must read. It tells how a young kid has to survive in the wilderness. Gary connects some of his love for the outdoors into his writings. He used to love to run Iditarod's and he loves to sail. Gary loves to sail in the Pacific and to travel to his house in New Mexico. I think the theme that Gary was trying to get through was that even if you're stuck out in the wilderness you can still make ends meet and survive He enjoys spending a lot of his with his wife. While doing that he would have to work out in the wilderness with his dogs. Brian had to do some hard work in the wilderness such as retrieving wood and dragging back the animals that he killed.

Brian�s Winter is about a thirteen-year-old boy named Brian Robeson. Brian is stranded in the Canadian wilderness for 96 days and has to learn all about living in the wilderness all alone. Brian has to get through dangerous encounters with animals, and has to learn how to hunt animals in order to have food to eat. He learns how to make weapons and keep them strong so he would be able to hunt with the weapons he made. This is what the book Brian�s Winter is about and how brain learns to stay alive.
I liked this book Brian�s Winter because it had a lot of description and I was able to picture in me mind what was happening in the book. Brian has to go through so many things like animals and how to stay out of their way and he learns so many things about the wilderness. He has to mark his territory so that the wolves know that�s his spot and if he stays out of the wolves� way the wolves will stay out of his way. When winter came for Brian it was a whole different experience, no birds singing and it was harder for him to hunt with all the snow and the cold weather but Brian knew that he can pull through.

Rating this book Brian�s Winter was a hard decision because it was a really good book and there were a few things I didn�t like about it so I rate this book a 4 out of 5. The only reason I didn�t rate it a 5 out of 5 is because I didn�t like the parts where Brian was cutting up the deer and the moose, because I could picture it in my head. Another thing I didn�t like was when the wolves were eating the moose while the moose was alive and suffering. Overall the book Brian�s Winter was really good and easy to read. If I were asked to read it again I would probably read it again.

Imagine a plane crashed in the middle of the wilderness, no food, no way of communicating with others just you and the wild. Well that's how Brian felt when his plane crashed, he had no food, no phone, no one, and most of all no shelter to keep warm for the all winter that was coming. Brian's Winter is about a teenage boy that needs to figure out how and what he desires to survive the long winter to come. So he teaches himself how to hunt, cook his food, make clothes so he could keep warm, and how to make a shelter so that the warmth says in and the cold air stays out. He watches the animals and learns all about the different kinds, how they live and move around. Brian also learns about how you should never ignore the signs that the wilderness is trying to show you because it may be the most important thing for you to know. He learned that the hard way, if you want to know if it ended out good or bad. You are just going to just have to read the book, Brian's Winter.
Many book readers liked this book because Gary Paulsen had a very good writing style by using brilliant detail and imagery. Many enjoy ready books with imagery; it helps you see pictures in your minds as you read the text. Also Gary wrote this book for his fans, he was getting letters asking him questions and that inspired him. Gary kind of what on about one subject, he could have made those parts a little shorter and wrote more about how Brian made his bows and arrows. I would recommend this book to readers who enjoy hunting, adventures, and the forest. Also who enjoy going hiking, camping and basically just take pleasure in wilderness. I rated Brian's Winter for its entertainment value. Good.

John Preisaitis G3

Brian's Winter essay

In the book Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen, the sequel to hatchet, after plane crash Brian has to survive in the Canadian wilderness by himself for a period of time without anything but a hatchet, when Brian finds the survival pack in the crashed plane, everything is going along fine, until his rifle breaks then he gets attacked by a bear, and gets caught by winter when Brian's not ready to face it.

He starts to understand little by little that his real home is now wild. In this book, the moral/theme is more about the internal strugle. He changed his ways of thinking, unlike in Hatchet he wasn't surviving in the wild any more. He was living in it. He had to survive in wild with nothing but a hatchet and his own knowledge of the wild.

The first problem Brian faced was his gun breaking, and without the proper tools to fix it he was forced to put it aside and take up his bow that he hadn't touched in a while and learn to survive with it once again, as he did the first few days of his "landing".

In this book he mentions that he is no longer sure if he knew what playing meant and if all this was a game. Although he might be right, I think different; I think that his life had only become real.

The second hard hit came when a bear decided to come visit Brian in his shelter, only which it wasn't in the best mood. Afterwards Brian was left with some minor injuries and a ruined shelter. Although Brian couldn't fix his bruises in one day but since the shelter was fortified with dried clay, it didn't totally ruin and Brian fixed it the following day.

These bumps in the road were hard for Brian but they were only bumps in the road and then he came up to a wall the wall was the freezing winters of Canada where temperature falls down so low that wood freezes to a point where "it stuck to the warm skin on his finger "(p.101 Gary Paulsen) and that was what Brian was not ready for. Along with this came the only way of food, killing, and Brian had to kill animals in order to survive which bothered him quite a bit. Brian hated hunting "it was kind of like murder" (p.115 Gary Paulsen).

This book is a young adult fiction, adventurous book the book is interesting in a way that you cannot stop reading it and the size of the book doesn't scare most of the readers away while pulling them into the series following this book (The River, and Brian's Return). The adventures include, hunting animals for food, fur and clothing making this one of the main themes of the book. The 66 year old writer of all Brian's adventures has said that he wrote some things on these books from his own experiences, which one of them is surviving alone without parents.

Brian winter is a good book. Brian is thirteen years old he was in an airplane crash in Canada. Brian is the only one who survived. He only has a first aid kit, broken gun, hatchet and matches. He has to survive on his own he needs a shelter and some clothes and food. He also needs to make stronger weapons. If he wants to hunt bigger game. He uses the entire animal he doesn't let anything go to waste. He uses animal skin to make clothing and also to make some of his weapons. He finds lots of friends and enemies one of his friends is Betty the skunk. She protected Brian from the bear attack and Brian is very great full. Brain feels very lonely and he is starting to forget his family. He also miss them very much.
What I liked most the book had lot of very good descriptions of the forest and how he was breathing and how he liked the animals. Also this book can help you learn how to survive in the wilderness. As well in some of the chapter the author keep you hanging at the end of the chapter. The part that I thought was cool was when the trees were exploding and Brian thought it was gunshots.
I thought this book was good I would rate it 4 out of 5 because the book was exiting and suspenseful. Like in this one chapter Brian got attached by a bear the author said that the bear was thrashing throw out the cave (brains home). There was also a part were Brian killed an animal and then the author made it so visual he said that the arrow went threw the moose then the moose started to charge at him and then Brian pulled out his lance and the moose ran on to it and the moose hit heads with Brian and Brian passed out.I thought the author did a good job on this book.

I LOVED THIS BOOK!! IT WAS REALISTIC LIKE HELL!! MAN, I COULD READ THE BOOK 20 TIMES! GREAT SURVIVAL STORY, AND IT WAS JUST INCREDIBLE!! I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT! GARY PAULSEN DID A MAGNIFICENT JOB ON THIS BOOK. EVERYONE SHOULD READ IT WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THESE TYPES OF BOOKS.FABULOUS!! WHEN I WAS DONE THE BOOK, I FELT LIKE I WAS DONE A 600 PAGED BOOK!WHAT A SENSATION!!!! NOT ENOUGH WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE BOOK!!! EXCELLENT.WONDERFUL, AND ALL THOSE OTHER WORDS FOR WHAT A GREAT BOOK THIS IS. TREMENDOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! =-) =-) =-) =-)

Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen is a huge adventure story. It inspires one to go on an expedition. Brain's voyage was though the Canadian wilderness. There, he learned all of his survival skills.

Brian was not perfect. He tried things to see if they would work or not. I thought it was a fine idea, but he quickly learned his lesson about putting the fire in the shelter. "As he has predicted, the smoke quickly filled the small enclosure and drove him coughing and spitting out into the air." Although, in the end, Brian realized he needed a little hole at the top so the smoke can leave; it is a nice survival tip to keep in the back of the mind if ever alone in the cold wilderness.

Gary Paulsen is famous for writing many novels. All of his stories he wrote somehow connected to one of his life experiences. Gary ran the Iditarod so he knows how bitter it gets in the wilderness. He spent 17-19 hours training his dogs through the coldness of the winter. Gary knows how Brian should or would feel out in the backwoods so he knew how to describe and express it in his writing.

The message Paulsen wanted to portray from this novel is to always have faith. Brian never gave up, not even once. He only concentrated on how to stay alive and to get home one day. Devotion is a key ingredient to accomplishing a task.

This novel has a realistic fiction genre. Being alone in a wilderness in the wintertime is a little farfetched but it is possible. Accidents do happen; such as the plane crashing and leaving Brian as the only survivor. He was dropped off into a realistic environment; for example the Canadian wilderness.

The writing style of the story was very enjoyable because it was informative, easy to understand, and mostly 1st person. One will learn so many survival tips and also some things about nature. For instance rabbit's feet actually grow in the wintertime to work as a snowshoe. Also rabbit's fur changes color to blend in more with the snow.

The novel was very easy to read and one will have trouble putting the book down. Brian, the main character, tells the story in his point of view. You will feel like you are in the mind set of Brian, knowing his thoughts and his views.

"In hunting terms it was a perfect kill, and it made Brian feel perfectly awful." Brian felt guilty for killing animals. But he knew he had to eat in order to stay alive. Brian only took what was necessary to keep living.

I loved this book. It was a roller coaster ride learning the dos and don'ts of how Brian survived. The novel was very easy and enjoyable to read. I feel that the book has a great message. It was just a pleasure to read.

In this paper I will talk about the book Brian's Winter. Gary Paulsen wrote this book. I will talk about the purpose of the book, a literary element that I think was handled the best, the main character, if I think the book was less than perfect, and I will also rate this book on the scale from one to five.
In this paragraph I will talk about the purpose of this book, and if I agree with the message that he is trying to send out to us. The purpose of this book is to entertain us, and also to teach us some ways to survive in the wilderness. Yes, I do agree with the message of this book because it gives us some ideas of how to survive in the wilderness.
In this paragraph I will talk about which literary element that I think was handled the best, and who the main character was and if I would want him to help me survive in the wilderness. I think that he handled the writing style the best because when I read the book I could picture in my head what is happening in the book. The main character was Brian Robeson. I would not want him in the wilderness with me because I think that he would be annoying.
In this paragraph I will talk the rating of the book, and if I would recommend this book to a friend. I think that this book was very well written. I would rate this book a three out of five because there were some boring parts in the book. I would also recommend this book to a friend because I feel that it was a good book.
In conclusion I would recommend this book to everyone who likes to read adventure books. This book was good because when I read it I learned some very important survival tips. It was also a book where there were only some boring parts, and it was very entertaining.

Brian's Winter

By: Gary Paulsen

Review by Kevin Wiatr

It is amazing how much Gary Paulsen turned around his disappointing childhood and became a successful author who wrote this book, Brian's Winter. Even though I have never been stranded in a Canadian Wilderness the author Gary Paulsen made me feel as if I was stranded with the main character Brian Robeson. Brian is stranded in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but the clothes on his back, his hatchet, and the survival pack that he found in the wrecked plane. The entire story is told by the main character Brian and how he feels about this whole experience. Brian had to hunt, build a shelter/make clothing, have fake conversations, and stay warm if he wanted to make it out of the wilderness alive.

This book is probably one of the most adventurous books I have ever read because of all the bold and daring things Brian did to survive for more than three months. The main thing though, is that Brian had to risk his life every day by going out in the middle of nowhere and killing some violent animals with nobody around to look out for him. Even though at first he only ate rabbit and fool bird it became more dangerous when he was trying to hunt the deer and moose. Not only do you have to worry about that animal, but you also have to worry about the hungry wolves that are ready to attack at any given moment.

Another big conflict Brian had to deal with was building a suitable shelter that he could live in. At first, he built a pretty weak shelter. It was almost a blessing in disguise when the bear attacked his shelter. This made him realize he had to improve his shelter or worse things could happen. Also, clothing was just as important as shelter especially because winter was just around the corner. Without the proper clothing Brian would freeze to death or get very sick. Both of these tie together because they will both keep Brian from freezing to death.

One important thing that helped Brian more mentally than physically is that he had fake conversations with himself. The main reason fake conversations were so important is because this reminded him of his family and gave him a reason to live. This helped him feel like he was at home with his family and friends. This was also a good way to relieve stress and calm down and forget about all of his troubles. Without doing this Brian would not have been able to overcome all of his troubles.

When you are trying to survive in the winter, one of the key elements is warmth. Without this, no one would be able to survive the harsh winters the Canadian wilderness has to offer. Without warmth you would probably either get extremely sick or maybe even pass away. The best way to stay warm in the wilderness during winter is obviously making a fire. The good thing about making a fire is that it is not that difficult to create and there is plenty of wood in the wilderness to use.

Not only is this a serious story but it also has some comedic scenes like when Brian says, "Wonderful- I have a roommate with a terminal hygiene problem..." (Paulsen 55). This is when Brian encountered the skunk. As you can see, this story not only has a great lesson but also parts that make you want to laugh out loud. Even though Gary Paulsen struggled through his life and was a bad student this goes to show you that with hard work and determination anything is possible. Over all I enjoyed reading this book. This was honestly one of the best novels I have ever read. The reason I enjoyed it so much was because I felt this book taught me a valuable lesson of overcoming life's obstacles. I enjoyed the ending, a touching part of the story, when Brian left the wilderness and David said, "It will be here when you come back. We'll keep the soup hot." (Paulsen 133). The coincidence of this statement is that Brian will return to the wilderness he once withstood.

Brian's Winter

Gary Paulsen

Michelle K

Book Review

The Canadian Wilderness, a wooded area, freezing cold in the winter and full of wild animals, both vicious and territorial is where Gary Paulsen writes his novel "Brian's Winter." The Canadian Wilderness has stayed the same for a long time, it has always been trees and animals, but this story takes place in present time. "The entire world was white, bright white with new morning sun glaring off and through it and so intense that it made his temples hurt" (Paulsen 71).

A young boy named Brian, who is only thirteen years old, is forced to survive alone in this forest. He is strong for his age and very smart when it comes to survival skills. A person twice his age probably wouldn't be able to do things he is able to do. Brian is caught between his mothers and father's relationship problems and faces regret and homesickness. The Smallhorns, a Cree trapping family working in the Canadian Forest helps Brian go back to his family.

It all started when Brian went back to the crashed plane and found a survival pack. This was a lot of help, and who knows, without it he probably wouldn't have survived. The supplies ran out or broke, like his rifle, and he had to resort to building more primitive tools. He also had a hatchet which he owes it all to. Fishing and hunting were his only means of food. Stupidly, he put the meat he killed next to him so when a bear came at night he was attacked, because he was in the way of the meat. He was able to get out alive luckily and learned a good lesson about territory. The bear came back and a skunk saves Brian by spraying the bear. Brian named it Betty and then became friends. Winter arrived and if Brian didn't work hard he could die easily from the cold or from starvation. "He would hunt big tomorrow, he thought" (Paulsen 58). Brian was sick of fool birds and rabbits and felt that a he would take more lives of small animals to equal one life of a deer or moose. He attempted to kill a moose but was trampled by it. He blacked out and then woke up with a dead moose on top of him. One night a sound of a gun shot woke him up. This is the part I thought was really exciting. It totally threw me off and I was so sure he was going to be rescued. It ended up being trees popping from the cold. As he was out walking around one day he saw a line imprinted in the snow. This was weird he thought to himself, there are never lines.

In my opinion, I liked this novel and usually I don't read survival books because they never really interested me. I have never been to the Canadian Wilderness but it felt like I was right there next to Brian. Gary Paulsen is an excellent author because he describes everything so well I could imagine it easily. I learned a lot of survival tips too. I guess that library card he was offered really paid off. The Iditarod races he ran showed him what it was like to survive in cold weather. You would think this book was boring if it was mainly talking about one character in the wilderness but I was surprised to see something was always happening and I never was bored while reading it. I could only say there was one bad thing about this book; the parts where Brian hunted the poor animals. What the novel meant to me is that to never give up hope and nature is beautiful.

Brian's Winter

By: Gary Paulsen

Review by: Monika Juknaite

Kids get lost all the time, supermarkets, movie theaters, big crowds, but have you ever heard of anyone getting lost in the woods? Not just any woods, but the Canadian wilderness, where the weather is crucial, and the chances of surviving during the winter are very slim. Gary Paulsen, the author of Brian's Winter and many other award-winning novels, wrote a book about a young boy getting lost in the wilderness and how he tries to survive.

The whole book is told by Brian Robeson a young teenage boy whose parents live on two different sides of the country. Brian's plane crashed and he's been stuck in the wilderness for a while. Instead of Gary Paulsen rescuing Brian, he wrote a sequel about what would happen to Brian if he would have never gotten rescued. The main point that the book talks about is surviving. Gary Paulsen does a great job of describing Brian's stay in the wilderness.

Brian did not have any brother's or sisters, he was an only child. And his parents were divorced. He lived with his mother, and had to take a plane to see his father. When one time, as he was flying to see his father. The pilot of his plane had a heart attack and crashed the plane. That is when Brian was lucky enough to survive.

Brian try's to survive in the wilderness by quickly adapting to the environment and trying to learn from his surroundings. The weather during the winter was extremely cold, thirty, forty, even fifty below zero. "It felt as if the moisture on his eyes would freeze-he had to blink to keep them from freezing" (Paulsen 98).

The young boy needs to hunt food to survive. And during the winter the selection of the food that you can get is very limited. The lake is frozen, so you can not fish, and there are no trees that have fruit growing on them. Brian carves arrow heads and makes weapons, so he can hunt animals, and later on starts to hunt bigger animals like deer and doe.

Not only Brian needs to hunt for food, he also has to protect himself and his food. There are many animals that may hurt Brian in the wilderness. "Half a beat and Brian lay still, staring up at the bear" (Paulsen 60). He has to be very careful about what he does. The author describes very well in the novel, about how Brian survives, and what he does to keep warm, keep away from hunger and not be lonely.

I believe that Brian's Winter is a great novel for young adults. Probably the most interesting thing that the author does in this book is how he talks about everything. He describes very well how Brian lives in his cave, and how he hunts and how the animals die in front of him some slowly some quickly. If the author would have not described the book so well, I don't think I would have liked it as much. I feel that the book may inspire some young writers, and gets a great message across to its readers.

Gary Paulsen, even though in his older years of life still has the niche of writing. He loves to write stories and if not for the fans, Brian's Winter would have never been published. Gary Paulsen has written many books, like Dog Song, The River, The Voyage of the Frog, and of course The Hatchet which is the first part of Brian's Winter, so I suggest if you want to read Brian's Winter you should read Hatchet first.

Brian's Winter

By Gary Paulsen

Review by Krystian Ustupski

I've never visited the thrilling cold world of the Canadian Wilderness, but the book Brian's Winter, and especially the author Gary Paulsen made me visualize it and experience it's beauty. A horrifying plane crash isolated a teenage boy from the rest of the world and left him all alone in the wild forests. The story is being told from a 3rd person view who explains the character's survival in an area where there is no mercy for the weak.

As you probably figured out, Brian is the name of the main character that you will be reading about. Trying to survive in the Wilderness was a huge test for this young boy who never experienced the woods or life on his own. Brian knew that if he wanted to stay alive he had to use his personal qualities. His great will to learn kept him going, experiencing the wilderness and looking for tips, his imagination helped him a lot when it came to thinking problems. Also if it wasn't for Brian's hard working character he would have no chance in trying to stay alive.

As mentioned in the introduction Brian survived a plane crash, which is a beginning of this boy's adventure. The pilot of the plane died due to heart attack which was the reason of the crash. At the start Brian has a real hard time trying to adapt and get to know the wilderness. It takes him a while to do that but as the time passes by he learns new tips and skills that will be massive in the fight for survival. Brian finds items in the survival pack but as they run out he needs to find a way to create weapons and other items that he needs. There were also times when he had to fight with his mind and not with the cold or the animals. "Coffee," he said, while sipping the hot water, trying to trick his mind."(Paulsen, 32)

Brian showed his intelligence a lot of times in the book, by marking the days, by learning from the animals or by making sure he always had plenty of food. But he also had made some mistakes in the wilderness. "Hey - get out of there" he yelled and kicked the bear that attacked him and was close to killing him."(Paulsen, 65) He also didn't take seriously the signs that the nature gave him about the upcoming cold. Would he pay for it? I guess your going to have to find out!

The fabulous action and the mystery of this book were the reason why I enjoyed reading it so much. I enjoyed the author's writing style that was easy to read and understand. I think Gary Paulsen's knowledge about the wilderness and about survival made this book easy for him to write. Gary would be the first person you would want to ask about life in the forest since he has lived in the forests of Minnesota for a long period of his life. Did Brian survive? I bet that's the question that is going through your mind! If you want to find out the answer, you will have read this fantastic book

Brian's winter

Gary Paulsen

Eddie Salinas

Brian's Winter is a great book. The book is very adventurous. The book is written by a great writer, Gary Paulsen. When you read this book you see clear images in your mind of what Gary is writing. He is a very descriptive writer. This book can teach you many things, such as, handling wild animals, and learning to survive.

This book takes place in the frigid temperatures of the Canadian Wilderness. Brian is stranded there all by himself. The Wilderness has tall trees, open land, lakes and it is very mountainous. The Wilderness has a lot of wild life like bears, rabbits, wolves and moose. When the cold temperatures come it starts to get dangerous. The temperatures get so cold that Brian could freeze to death. When Brian spit, his spit froze before it hit the ground. Also it snows a lot in the Wilderness. When it snows it looks like a white blanket over everything.

Brian is a brave 14-year-old teenager. Brian has been stranded in the Canadian Wilderness all alone. He has been in the Wilderness for a long time now. He only has a limited amount of supplies and food. He runs along problems on his journey, like getting clothing, being attacked by wildlife, shelter, weather and food. He finds solutions for his problems, but not all of them. Brian keeps himself from going insane, by playing a visiting game with himself. Brian is also a confident person. Brian never gives up and he practices to get better at something. When Brian made a larger bow he wasn't good at shooting it. He kept practicing and got better and became a better hunter. When the weather starts warming up he hears something. Was he being saved? Was his mind playing tricks on him? Or was nature just messing with him?

"Brian became tangled in it and couldn't move fast enough to stay out of the way so the bear hit him again. This time hard. The blow took Brian in the upper thigh and even through the bag it was solid enough to nearly dislocate his hip." Shortly after Brian went hunting again. That shows that Brian has a lot of determination and doesn't quit. "He guessed fifty, sixty pounds of pull were required to get the string back to his chin, and every shot hurt his arm and fingers and hand. But it was worth it." It shows you that Brian does what it takes to get the job done. Also that he practices to get better and doesn't give up.

Gary was born on May 17, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Gary had a rough childhood. Since the age of 15, Gary has worked many jobs to support himself. His first book was published in 1966. Now Gary lives in La Luz, New Mexico with his wife Ruth. I really enjoyed the book. Gary Paulsen is a great writer. He writes very descriptive, which gives the reader good images in their minds. I liked how Gary wrote the novel. I didn't like how the book ended. It kind of ended with a cliffhanger.

Brian's Winter

By Gary Paulsen

Review by Jackie Jaje

I have never read any of Gary Paulsen's books before, but when I read Brian's Winter, a fiction novel, I was able to visualize everything that Brian was going through. Brian is a thirteen-year-old who got stuck in the Canadian Wilderness in the Fall. I think it was amazing that he could survive in the wilderness for so long. He was there until the end of Summer. I know I could never survive that long in the wilderness alone the book teaches you many skills for surviving in the wilderness; for example, you should boil the meat so it will not lose all of its juice and vitamins.

I think that Brian was very brave especially for his age. Even though it took him some time to figure out how to hunt and survive, he did it. He was also creative in things he found. For example he used animal hide to make clothing and boots. Also, Brian pretended to talk to his family, so he didn't go crazy. As it started to get colder out Brian said, "He would no longer get rescued-he had finally given up on it and no longer listened or looked for planes-and he was going to get hit with a northern winter." (Paulsen 23). I think this is where Brian had no faith in himself and just thought he was going to die right there.

Brian found and killed many animals for food. He ate bear, moose, deer, rabbit, and many other things. I can just picture the deer lift its foot to move when the deer had its head down to bite a willow then a step, another step, so slowly, what seemed forever the deer had moved sideways and fifteen yards closer. Brian learned how to hunt and when the exact moment was to shoot at it. He learned this on his own and from watching animals hunt other pray.

Brian got ready for winter by getting his camp ready. He made it so he could have a fire inside there was another wall which he learned to build from the beaver. Brian also hunted animals before winter set in that way if he couldn't hunt he would not starve. He made better weapons out of arrows. Brian and I both learned something as Brian said, "Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do, and you must respond as they come." (Paulsen 25). You can't be ready for everything so when something happens you must find a solution quickly.

I think that Brian's Winter is a great book to learn from. I also think that Gary Paulsen is a great writer. That is why he is a three-time Newberry Honor Winner. Gary Paulsen also grew up always moving and his parents fighting. So you can still be successful in life even if you have difficult situations to deal with. I feel that this book makes me want to read more Gary Paulsen books. He explains things in great detail, but I don't like when he goes on forever explaining it. His book also teaches you many lessons and survival skills. If you want to see how great of a writer Gary Paulsen is, then read the book.

Brian's Winter

Gary Paulsen

Brian Bauma

Have you ever been in the wilderness? Have you ever tried building your own shelter? What about your own weapons or clothes? Well in this story Brian Robenson has to do all of that. Gary Paulsen makes it feel like you are actually in the wilderness with Brian. Brian's Winter is a very descriptive novel so you can understand it very well. Gary Paulsen has written tons of books, but I think this is his best one. You can also read the sequel to this story Brian's Return. I think the main theme of this book is always be prepared for the worst, I say that because Brian did not know that he was going to be trapped in the wilderness and he was not prepared.

The main character in this story is Brian Robenson, a thirteen year old boy. Brian is a very intelligent kid, he makes his own shelter clothes and weapons. I also think he is a nice kid because he feels bad about killing the animals. But most of all I think he is a very brave kid, I say that because he has been in the wilderness alone for over 95 days and he does not get scared. I also think he is sort of funny because he made up a game called the visiting game, it is where he goes and talks to no one but imagines that his mom is there.

The most important event in this story is the plane crash, I think the plane crash was the most important part because that is how he gets in the wilderness, his plane crashes into the pond. Another important event is when he makes his first arrows because that is what he hunts with. One last important event is the first time that it snows because then he knows that it will be cold so he could start preparing for winter(like make clothes, gloves, and shoes).

My reaction to this novel, well it was a pretty good book. There was only one thing I did not like about it, and that is that I don't think a thirteen year old boy would be able to survive in the wilderness for that long or I don't think he would be able to make all of his clothes and weapons and shelter.

In conclusion, I think the book would be a little better if he was not there for so long, because I don't think he would be able to survive for that long. The Genre of this novel is adventure. Brian has to go through the wilderness and try to live trough all the troubles that he has. In the beginning of the novel Brian is there for 54 days and Gary takes us through the book day by day, "I had never thought I would be there for this long, after the plane crash that marooned him in the wilderness he had lived day by day for 54 days"(Paulsen 1). I think you should read this book if you like adventuress stories, it is a very descriptive and good book.

Danny Evol

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I have never been to Canada, but author Gary Paulson made me feel if I had been living in the wilderness with Brian in this book brain's winter. When a boy Brian Robinson realized winter was coming he had very little time to prepare. The cold in the wilderness he realizes that if he wants to have a remote chance at surviving he has to prepare and fast.

Brian lives in a three stone wall cave and a wood hand made wall for the fourth wall. He thinks of scary things out there in the wilderness .The suspense of the book is unreal one minute he could be cleaning his shelter one minute and then being attacked by a bear the next. The fact that Gary Paulson thought of every little detail such as, how mush snow was on the ground, or the fact that he couldn't just walk around on top of the snow, or the fact that wow it's cold out he actually will need clothes to keep him warm. Just every detail is covered and that's a great thing I love that in a book.

All the work that went into what he had to do, yes it was a little unbelievable how he found all his supplies in a short radius but life is a little unbelievable at some times. The materials he made were as followed, rabbit skin vest, deer skin pants, deer skin gloves, fool bird feathers for his arrows, war bow, killing lance both of wood and skin on them, and finally his snow shoes made of moose skin and wood. As Brian would say "I did pretty well for not knowing what I was doing."

Brian's winter is full of challenges for Brian. It makes it seem as if I lived up in the Canadian wilderness. I loved the way Gary Paulson described the bear," he looked over Brian and he could only see the fangs and the glowing eyes of the ferocious bear as he lay between it and the food he came for."

The trail of lost Brian Robinson takes place at present day in the Canadian wilderness. "I am alone and it is lonely but peaceful," Said Brian. He hears popping sounds out in the wilderness, but it is to warm for trees exploding. Brian set out the next day to find out what it was will he find it you will have to find out for your self as you read the great book Brian's winter.

The writing is the reason why I liked this book is because of the writing, the descriptions he uses and the pictures he paints are unbelievable. As I said in my first paragraph he made me feel like I was there. I would feel what he felt, I would see what he saw, and I would want to kill what he killed. Another reason why I red this book is for the action in it. All the challenges he faces and all the stuff he has to overcome.

Brian's Winter

By Gary Paulsen

Review by Amy Paolini

While I was reading the novel, Brian's Winter, the author Gary Paulsen made me fell like I was really there. The book is about a boy named Brian who was on a trip to see his father in Canada. On the way there, The jet he was taking all of a sudden crashed. With only him and the pilot on board, Brian was the only survivor. With only the tools left on the jet, and a hatchet that is what Brian had to survive on for mny months, and a hard long winter.

I really liked this book. It took me to a new place, and I felt like me and Brian were like family members, and he was telling me his stories. Also it made a good picture in my mind. I felt like when he was describing on how the moose toppled over him, I had an awesome picture of that for the whole time.

The theme of this book is to never give up and always keep going no matter what happens. Brian was one of those people that were living on his own and he had to get through the winter or until someone found him. He was missing for a long time and not only did the plane crash but he hasn't talked to his parents since the summer.

Brian has had an adventure of his life. Though the whole book, it always seemed like Brian needed to improve on everything. When he decided to start hunting bigger and better things, as said in the book "He decided he needed a stronger weapon, a large bow." Said by Brian.

I liked this book because it was like I was really there and I like books that take you on adventures and like make you want to keep reading because you want to find out what is going to happen next. I can picture the authors voice being deep and very serious because he is trying to survive.

Brian's Winter is full of funny events that Brian has to go through. One of my favorites was when he watched a wolf make his mark on a tree and he did the same thing. When he did the wolf didn't look every happy, so Brian just walked away hoping not to get hurt.

If you want to find out what happens to Brian if he survives or not you will have to go and read this book.

I've never been to the Canadian Wilderness but author Gary Paulsen (was born on Born May 17, 1939, and raced the Iditarod) who created Brian's Winter made me feel like I was experiencing it! When Brian was trapped in the Wilderness with nothing to spare. All he had was himself and the woods; it was very cold that winter and he need to survive somehow in the bitter cold.

Brian was a 14-year-old boy stranded in the middle of nowhere and no one even had a clue of where he was. In order for Brian to survive he needed to keep warm and somehow eat. When winter came by Brian had not the slightest clue of how cold it can really get out there. As he tried to prepare as best as he could by collecting wood twigs and leaves to make a nice cozy den.

What Brian needed the most was food, so he went out to hunt fool birds and rabbits of all sizes. He knew later on he would need a way better weapon, and did he make a sweet weapon! He now was hunting deer and moose. As he said, "It's like bigfoot"(Paulsen pg. 71). There was this one moose that really left a big scar on his life. All hell had broken loose when Brian hit the moose with his war-arrow. That was probably my most favorite part because he now knew what war was really about!

While Brian was in the bitter cold night he heard a couple of gunshots. "Bang! One night Brian heard this mysterious gunshot, he looked out into the gloomy night but saw nothing. Was there someone out there?" In fact he explored and they where only trees exploding because of the intense coldness. He was living like a king with all that moose and one night he celebrated Thanksgiving and thanked everyone and everything. When the weather started to break and it began to get warmer Brian yet heard another gunshot! This time it was no tree, for in fact he knew it was to warm for them to be exploding! Who or what could it be?

Brian's Winter is a very exiting and thrilling book! It's filled with action and lots of adventure that a teenager would love to read about. As writer Gary Paulsen is one of the best novel writers for teens! Brian was always in some kind of conflict but in the end he managed to get out! I would give this book a "Two Thumbs up!" The theme of this book is to always have pride and confidence in yourself, and just maybe never give up if you're in trouble! If I had to change something about this book it would have to be the ending, but I don't want to give it away so you'll have to read and find out why!

Author: Gary Paulsen
By: Regina Distasio
Date: 04/30/03
The book that I have been reading is called Brian's Winter. The book is written by Gary Paulsen. The book is about a thirteen-year-old boy named Brian Robeson who has been stranded in the Canadian wilderness all by him self with out any food or clothing to keep him alive. Brian had become his own worst enemy because in all the business of hunting fishing and surviving he hade forgotten the primary rule always pay attention to what is happening. Brain got in a plane crash and when the plane had crashed he was the only one that was out in the wilderness and now he had to be all by himself and try to make the best out of it and he had to hunt for food in order to stay alive. Sometimes Brian would go without days of eating and now he really had to think to himself that he had to get started hunting. And even though it was still summer soon or a later the winter would be coming and if he does not have any food he would die and it is going to be much harder in the winter to hunt for food. Do you think that Brian is going to make it through all by him self?
I enjoyed reading this book because I thought that it was very interesting learning about a boy that was only thirteen years old and had no idea what was going on and he had to make it through the days and nights all by himself. If anyone were to ask me if they should read this book, I would say yes because it was action packed.
The rating that I would give the book is a ten because its kept my interested and tells you about life and how you can survive if it means living or dying.

Brian's Winter by Gary Paulson

Book review by Brandon in Cutchogue East School

Do you like airplanes? Well Try to imagine the pilot in your 2 seat plane lets you fly it and you think everything is going well and then, all of a sudden the pilot has a heart attack and you get stranded somewhere in the woods with only a few supplies, You have to fend for yourself just to survive. Well, that's how Brian's life is now.

In Brian's Winter, Gary Paulson makes the setting a real picture in our minds and shows how it would be in the wild. Brian has been stranded in the woods for at half a year with nobody knowing were he is (and it must be the worst!). He has to fight and kill to so he doesn't die of starvation. He has to protect himself against bears and wolves and moose. But on top of that so far he has faired pretty well, he has made a house out of a small hill and made preparations for the cold winter that is coming. Later in the winter when he is hunting a huge, very heavy moose charges at Brian! Later he has to kill it. He has so far made a killing lance, a bow and arrow and his trusty hatchet and the ability to make fire. He has plenty of food: rabbit skin, moose hide, bird meat, and berries.

I would recommend this book to all people who like edge of life experiences and to people who would like to know what to do if you ever get stranded somewhere and to people who like books that include the wild life. If I had a choice I would give this book a five star for best imagination. All of this is just a small taste of what the adventure is really about. But before you read "Brians Winter" you have to read "Hatchet" then there's "Brians Winter" after that there's "The River" and after there is even another book called "Brians Return" and finally "Brians Hunt" and there may even be more books coming out after that! So far there are three books for the readers so find out what happens to Brian, will he be saved, or will he stay where he is? If you like realistic fiction books then this book is for you!

Brains Winter
The book Brains Winter is about this kid named Brian Robeson and he has to survive in the wilderness with only a survival pack and his hatchet. Brian made some tools to help him survive in the wilderness, like a bow and arrow, that he made out sticks and moose hide. He also made snowshoes to walk better in the snow. He made the snowshoes by using moose hide for the laces and he used weeping willow for the outline of the shoe. Brian has some difficult times trying to survive and he has some good times trying to adapt with the animals. Will Brian ever get rescued or will he die trying to survive in the wilderness?
I really enjoyed the book because I like how Brian had a different challenge everyday. I also like how Brian was always on the go and I like how he does something really stupid but then learns from his mistakes. My favorite part of the book was when he woke up one morning and there was a bear in his tent and he decided to kick the bear and when he did that the bear went wild and threw Brian. Then the bear came up to him and was ready to hit him but the skunk sprayed the bear. The only thing I didn't like is how Brain wasn't paying attention to the warning signs that nature was giving him that winter was coming.
If I had to rate the book out of a 1-10 scale, I would have to rate it a 9 because I enjoyed the book and I like survival books. Also why I rated the book a 9 because I enjoyed how Gary Paulsen put so much detail into it. I really enjoyed how Brian had so many different challenges that he had to face and how he overcame them.

Gary Paulsen has done it again he brought you the first survival book Hatchet, and he did it again with the sequel to it called Brian's Winter. It is again Brian Robeson surviving in the Canadian wilderness and only using his instincts to survive. But there is a twist in this book it doesn't take place in the Summer or Fall, it takes place in the Winter. During this book Brian is attacked, frozen, and he learns the real keys to survival. Luckily for him at the end of the first book he got the survival pack, which contained many things he used during the book brains winter. Brian in the book is attacked by a moose, bear, skunk and other things he is pushed to the edge but he pushes back, he over comes obstacles that we wouldn't dream of doing like eating grub and bugs he also eats moose, deer, birds, and rabbit. If you want an action packed survival book you found your book
If your looking for a good interesting survival book this is it. It has everything you need in a book plus survival tips, I would recommend this to any interested survival reader. I would say that this is the best survival book I have read yet. If you are interested in this book I would say read Hatchet first or at least the summary of Hatchet, it will help you understand the book Brian's Winter much better than just reading it first. But you will still catch on because this writer is pretty good a describing what happened in the first book. If I was to rate this novel from 1-10 I would give this book an 8 just on how much detail there is in it. I think Gary Paulsen put a lot of time in this novel.

Stephen Dillenburg

5/ 14/06

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Brian's winter

Gary Paulson's story "Brian's winter" is about a 14 year old boy named brain Robinson that gets trapped out in the Canadian wilderness for over 3 months. Through this story Brian learns how to live in the wilderness and learn the laws of Mother Nature. He gets to experience a human free world and discovers a world that might soon become a world of the past.

One summer Brian flew up northward to visit his dad as he normally does ever since his parent's divorce. The only thing this time is that the pilot suffers a heart attack and dies but fortunately he taught Brian a little on flying planes and it was enough to get Brian to land safely on the ground, on the ground in the middle of nowhere. He had landed the plane right in the center of the Canadian wilderness and soon would be spending the rest of his summer and winter there. This would soon be easily placed as Brian's greatest adventure yet.

Brian spends much time through this story learning the basic necessities of the wilderness. He learns many survival tips throughout this story but at the same time he learns many morals on life for example he learns how to appreciate the things he has because you never know when they might just vanish. He also learns use your time wisely because even the smallest change can lead to a bear of a disaster.

Not surprisingly Gary, the author, has experienced very similar events such as the Alaskan Iditarod which taught him very similar lessons of life and probably caused the inspiration of him to write this book. Although he has not had the same experience it is still close enough for him to describe them to us.

Through this story Brian faces with many hardships and sufferings but he also experiences the good and joyful side of Mother Nature. I would defiantly recommend this and the other Brian saga books to people who are looking for adventure and good lessons for not just in the story but also in real life.

Brian's Winter

Gary Paulsen

Joe Loburgio

The famous author, Gary Paulsen, is the author of the novel, Brian's Winter. When this novel begins, Brian is in the northern Canadian Wilderness. It is fall, but as the novel goes on, it gets colder and grows into winter. This novel is a survival novel. Brian is going to have to survive in the winter if he wants to live.

The main character in this book is Brian Roberson. He is a 13-year-old boy. He was an average boy before the plane crash. As the novel goes on, Brian uses his past knowledge to help make useful items that is vital for him to survive. One of the items Brian made was a vest to keep him warm. I am a retard. He made two vests out of animal skin. Another item that he made were snowshoes that helped Brian walk. He made them out of trees. He then made a bow and arrow out of wood. Over the novel, I could see that he has become more confident in himself.

Many important events occurred in this novel. The most important event that occurred was the plane crash. If there were no plane crash then Brian would not have been stranded in the Canadian Wilderness. Another important event was when winter arrived. Brian had not been through anything like this before. It was freezing cold and he had no place of warmth. Cheese is yummy. If he was at home, he could use the fireplace or the heating system. However, he was not at home. Killing animals was very important because he would survive with food. One of the biggest events was when he killed the moose. The moose was a large animal and he had food for a while.

In Brian's Winter there were two quotes that I thought were important. The first was "A great weight. Something heavy on him." That quote was when Brian had killed the moose and the moose fell on top of him. He had plenty of food because of that kill. Another quote was "I'm fat." Brian said that quote because he had plenty of food on Thanksgiving.

Gary Paulsen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of many survival books. Some of his famous books are Hatchet and Brian's Winter. I thought that this book was good. Gary Paulsen kept me interested in every chapter.

Brian's Winter
To begin with, the novel Brian's Winter took place in the wilderness. The author of this book is Gary Paulsen. Brian Robeson got stranded in the wilderness all by himself. Brian had to learn how to survive on his own. He had a hatchet and a gun and some other survival gear, but most of it he had made on his own. I think the purpose of Gary Paulsen writing this novel was to mostly give survival tips on how to survive in the wilderness on your own. I also believe he wrote this novel to tell people that if a teenager can survive in the wilderness all alone, anyone can. The literary element that I think Gary Paulsen handled best is the setting, because in this novel you can actually see what is happening.
The main character in Brian's Winter is Brian Robeson. If I got stranded in the wilderness all by myself and got one wish to bring someone into the wilderness with me I would bring Brian, because he lived in the wilderness a very long time, and he knows what to do in every kind of situation. In Brian's Winter there are really no ways in which I disliked the book.
I would rate Brian's Winter a five out of five because it describes every little detail. I would definitely recommend this book to a friend, because it is easy to comprehend, and you can easily visualize what is happening in the novel.
In conclusion, I feel that Brian's Winter was a very interesting book. I had gotten a lot interesting survival tips while reading this book. If I had ever got lost in the wilderness I would pretty much know what to do now that I had read this novel.

Brain's Winter Essay
The novel brains winter the author Gary Paulsen produces an absolute masterpiece. Brian who is a thirteen-year-old boy has crashed while going to Canada to visit his father. He has already survived the summer and part of fall but will he survive winter. It is the sequel to Hatchet and it gives an awesome description of the struggles in the winter. For example Brain needed to use his survival skills like to hunt animals, build a shelter, and provide warmth. Brian had gone through the summer trying to survive and stay alive, and he had thought that it was tough. But now he is in a whole new world. It is below freezing temperatures, food is harder to hunt in the snow, and he had to kill more animals for food plus to use the skin to stay warm. As he moves along winter and he gets used to the surrounding he hunts larger animals such as moose and deer. One day he went after a moose and was attacked and hurt in the process of killing it. So he tried smaller game and he then killed a deer. He thought the deer had suffered to much and he felt bad for it. But later in the book he found that when the moose was attacked by the pack of wolves he was no longer in sorrow for the deer. The deer compared to the moose was so much quicker. The wolves attacked and practically ate it alive while the moose struggles to get away.
In the first couple chapters of the book Brian was a little unprepared for the winter. He had felt better now that he had the survival pack with the food, lighter, pots, and sleeping bag. He had felt the cold air and the leaves falling off the trees, but he had ignored all the signs that nature was telling him. He then noticed he could see his breath and ice started to form around the lake. He then realized that it was going to change fast and he needed to catch up to be ready and prepared.
Brian had had a good idea of what the winter would be like. He had gotten many ideas from nature to make his shelter warmer and to have better chances of surviving this winter. For example, Brian had seen the beavers making a house by packing mud around the outside of their shelter and so Brian had done the same. He then realized that he now had a warmer shelter so all he had to do was make a little fire to make it warm. Brian also later in the book discovered that he needed snowshoes to stay above the snow. He had got this idea from the rabbits because in the winter the rabbits adapted by growing bigger feet to get away from predators easier.
I would rate this book a four out of five stars because it is a nonstop action book. It is a great book for the outdoorsy type of person and it is a heart pounding descriptions such as both the moose killings. And the author has one of the best ending out of all the books I've ever read. But you have to read it to find that out.

Brian a thirteen year old boy doing what he can to survive the harsh winter in the strange new world. Brian was going to visit his dad in Canada for the summer. But a tragic freak accident happened causing the plane to go down in the middle of nowhere. Brian was the only one to survive the crash. He also had survived the summer.
But Fall had come and he started to notice the changes slowly. Brian knew he had to get ready for winter because he did not know how bad of a winter would come. So he started to gather supplies he would need. First Brian made things that would help him survive the winter cold. Next, he learned on how to fight and survive in the new this new world. Third, Brian learned the many skills he would need to know. Finally, Brian learned what he was truly capable of doing. Still in the winter stranded alone Brian must still survive.
Gary Paulsen had done an excellent job with this story. He made it seem very realistic. He was very descriptive and wrote very well. But he could have made the story a little longer and some of the chapters a little longer. Gray had made Brain an excellent character; he hadn't made him very good mentally. But other wise Brian was a well-written character. I would rate it at 4 stars out of 4, because of how well written the story was and how well written Brian was. This Story would be recommended for everyone and a lot of beginner readers, because how well written the plot was. Also for the beginner readers it's good because how descriptive Gray Paulsen had been for the story.

Brian Robeson was in a plane crash and all he had was a survival kit from the plane and a hatchet that his mom gave him before he left for his journey. Brian was on his way to see his father and the plane went down in the Canadian wilderness. Brian had to learn how to survive in the wilderness and all the changes that he had to go through in order to survive. He had to learn many things in order to survive. For instance he had to learn how to hunt and he had to learn how to take care of himself. Brian was in the wilderness for a total of 94 days total and every day he thought it was his last he learned how to fish and how to start fires and what would happen if he got in a fight with a bigger animal.
I did not like this book I thought that is was boring at times. This was the first wilderness book that I have read and I do not like it. I also think that it was not realistic at times. I mean that if a boy were to really get in a fight with a bear the bear would have probably killed him. Also that if he got in a fight with a moose wouldn't he have been severely injured? I think that he would.
I would rate this book on a scale from one to ten I would give this book a four. Just because I did not like the book and that I think that it should have been more graphic in some parts. I also think that in some parts did not need to be in the book. But parts of the book didn't flow together as I would think it would. Like at one time he was in the camp and the next part he was out hunting or talking care of his friend Betty the skunk.

Brian's winter by Gary Paulsen
I just finished reading a book called Brian's winter. In this book, a guy named Brian Robeson who is 13 and is trying to survive in the wild. He is all by himself. He got stranded in the wild from a plane crash he survived but that happened in the book written before brians winter. This book talks about how Brian survives in negative 30-degree temperatures.The reason the author made the story in winter is because it makes the story more interesting. The audience would think how could he survive when the water freezes it becomes cold and animals go into hybernation.This book describes how brian became a better survivor because Brian learned from his mistakes as we all do. This is one of the reasons why this book is realistic fiction. The author of this book is very smart about how to survive in the wild.
I liked this book because the story was very realistic. The author of this book described the stories very well. In this book, Brian ran into several problems that I thought would not happen in the wild. I mainly liked this book because it gave me ideas that I never thought of. I liked it because it didnt seem to boring.
This is the only survival book i ever read and I thought it was interesting. I would give this book an 8.5 out of 10. I didnt always understand it and parts of it wasn't interesting but most of it was. I gave it an 8.5 because I learned things I never thought of. It was interesting and Brian was so close to dying several times and that made it less boring.

Brian's Winter
Brian's Winter is about a boy named Brian that had been in a plane crash previously in the book "Hatchet." With no were to go but the wilderness Brian is forced to survive in the dark forests, cold winter nights, and difficult days of survival. Brian lives in the forests of Canada for 96 days. In this book you can learn the many ways of survival that Brian had used to survive. While Brian was alone he had to keep himself warm at the cold nights and occupied in the day usually by hunting for food supply or making clothes form the hides of the animals. But the only things that Brian are left with from the plane crash area gun with fifty shells-a survival .22 rifle-, matches, two butane lighters, a sleeping bag and foam pad, a first-aid kit with scissors, a cap that said Cessna, fishing line, lures, hooks and sinkers, and several packets of freeze dry blood, and last but not least
I personally liked the book. I liked all of the ways of survival that Brain used dealing with food use, keeping warm in the winter, and surviving in the wilderness getting use to the animals and boundaries of other animals. I however didn't really like the ending cause it just wasn't that exciting. It was too dull I thought. The theme of the story is survival.
The next book in this series is called The River. It is about Brian(from Hatchet and Brian's Winter) and he is now a tour guide showing groups of people how he had survived in the wilderness and taking them on wild adventures as he had done before.

Brian's Winter is Gary Paulson's amazing sequel to Hatchet. The setting is in the Canadian Wilderness in present time. It is exciting and suspenseful until the very end. Brian has learned to survive by himself when the weather is nice but winter comes along quickly and he has to learn to adapt to the cold, harsh winter storms. There are many survival skills Brian uses that could really be used. In my opinion Brian's Winter is a 5 star book and should be read by all kids around America.

Ryan L.

I've never been to the Canada. But Gary Paulsen's Brian's Winter made feel if I had been there for a long cold winter. Brian was a survivor of a plane crash and he had to survive the whole winter. The story is told by Brian. This story is Realistic fiction because this can happen to any person. Brain remembers all his family back home and how he dealt with Canadian Wilderness. The author is trying to teach is that you can survive anything that comes your way.

Hunting and cooking were a major point in Brian's winter. Brain was always fixing all his tools. In the book Brian made a big bow and little bow for arrow shooting. The reason for making the bows because when he was shooting his gun that he found in the airplane that his gun broke. He killed a lot of animals like rabbits, fool birds, mooses, and also a deer.

Warmth and shelter were also another main aspect in this book. He also always described all things in his shelter When he was eating in his warm shelter he said All I need is some barbecue sauce," he said grease dripping down his chin. "And a coke." (86, Paulsen). He was missing his normal food.

He also befriended a skunk named Betty. He didn't like to kill the animals but he had to do it. He always had to think about his family He got sad sometimes. But there is a problem how will he survive.

This is a great book and highly recommend this book to any who likes adventure books. Brain is the reason I liked this book. His voice got me into the book. He also describes all the stuff in his shelter. He all describes the surrounding all around. But there weren't any reasons I didn't like book. Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939. He started to read at a young age.

BRIAN'S WINTER
This book was the sequel to Hatchet and Gary wrote both of these books
Paulsen. This paper will tell you about a brief summary of the book along with some other things like how the main character developed along the book and what survival skills he had learned. I think the authors message was to make sure if you were ever in the wilderness that you had the survival skills that bran had learned or it could be that when your on a camping trip to make sure that you don't eat the wrong berries, don't mess with bears and other kinds of things like that.
Now to start out with is a brief summary of this book. First off this kid named Brian was going to see his dad in Canada and was taking a plane over there. So everything started out fine until they were flying over this lake and the guy that was flying him he all of a sudden he had a heart attack and croaked in the middle of the flight and was dead. So Brian took over the plane and crashed into the lake down below. And Brian had all of these things like a hatchet, matches and other important things like that. So he had all these things to do and live on his own until he was rescued. Sorry I cannot tell you the rest of it you will have to go and find out by yourself.
The second thing in how the main character developed in this story. So how he developed in this story is in the beginning he was all soft and didn't know much about the wilderness but since he was in the wilderness he found out a lot of things like how to hunt eat berries that yoyo could an could not eat. Then he built his own cabin and fires so I think now you can say he got stronger from this experience.
Finally I would have to give this book a rating of a 7 out of 10 because I think the ending could have been a little better then it was. But overall I think this book would have to be the best next to Romeo and Juliet. But like I said I gave you a brief summary, the character developed, and a rating.

This novel Brian's Winter is about a stranded boy, named Brian, who is surviving in the many challenges of the wilderness. The book starts out in springtime where Brian is learning a lot about nature. Brian has been in the woods for a very long time since the plane crash and has encountered many animals and was surviving well, until winter came. Winter struck with surprise to Brian and he had to figure out how to survive. Brian learns many survival skills and tips through the time he was in the woods and taught me many things, too.
This book was easy to understand and it gave you many different kinds of pictures to visualize in your head. This book was not only a book to just read and never read again, this book taught me many different kinds of skills that I would use if I were stranded in the wilderness. Also this book gets even better if you re-read the chapters that you already read because sometimes there is some really cool things that you missed.
One of the skills that I learned is how you can through dirt over a fire and make coals. Another one is that you can use flint rock to make fire and bowen arrows. Some dislikes that I had about the book was on how Gary Paulsen used a couple of old-time-words that no one ever would use today. Besides that I think that this is a great book and I would rate it a 5 out of 5 because I thought that this book was very good and I could never put it down. I always wanted to keep reading ahead.

Imagine you were in the cold and had to survive with little things to start with. Gary Paulsen's theme of Brian's Winter is bewaring your surroundings. If you don't beware your surroundings you can be dead the next day. One example is if you don't would be if you see geese migrating south you know it is close to winter. Another example is if you feel the temperature drop quickly and rapidly.

Some of these things Brian had to face. He was in the Canadian wilderness for about a year and was use to the summer weather. It was easier for him when it was the summer and in the fall things got harder for him. He found food easily in the summer but now found it hard to get now that it was fall. The food was getting harder to get and he had to find a way to get it faster and quickly.

The weather was also changing. It was getting cool quickly. It wouldn't stop raining. "But this was fall, and fall rains were a whole new dimension in weather. It started to rain from a low, gray sky and it didn't rain hard and it didn't rain soft. It just kept raining."

I thought this book was enjoyable and recommend it to anyone who likes the adventure type books. The book is full of excitement, joy, and sorrow. The book had a bunch of twists and turns and kept you guessing. The author described the scene, events, and the time really well. Another reason I like this book is because of the author Gary Paulsen and his history. He was a student that got D's and F's and didn't appreciate his education. He was introduced to reading from his librarian who set him up with a library card and some books. He then started to enjoy reading and writing and now he has written over a hundred books.

The novel Brian�s Winter is about a boy that gets stranded in the wilderness and has to learn how to stay alive. He has been stranded in the wilderness for 96 days. Brian gets through many dangers along the way, and has to learn how to hunt animals in order to have food to eat. Towards the climax, he also learns how to make weapons, and tools to use in case of danger or when he needs to skin an animal that he caught. This is what the story was about and how Brian had to learn to stay alive.
I liked the novel Brian�s Winter because it had a lot of adventure and action in it. Brian has to do a lot of walking around and experiencing many new things with animals and surviving. He has to go through many encounters with all kinds of animals such as a bear attack. He also has to mark his territory with a pack of wolves. Each morning he always heard birds, until winter came, everything grew silent. I mostly liked the parts where he had happy and dangerous at times, encounters with animals.
In conclusion, the novel Brian�s Winter�s genre would be realistic fiction and from 1-5, I would rate this book a 4. My reasons for rating this book a 4 is because I thought it was a very interesting book to read. However, at times the book was boring because it repeated some parts in the book, or Brian stayed in the same place for a long period of time. Overall, I hope you choose Brian�s Winter because it has a lot of action and adventure that you can learn from.

Brian's Winter
The title of this book is Brian's Winter, by Gary Paulsen. This book is a realistic fiction book. The main character is Brian Robeson, who is 13 years old and was on his way to visit his father in Canada on a plane, but the plane crashed and the pilot died.
So, Brian has no way of calling anyone for help and his parents think he is dead. Then, Brian is starting to use his survival skills and has made it through the summer and is getting ready for winter. Brian has to kill animals and skin them, in order to eat and stay warm. Brian is probably not very familiar with doing this kind of activity. Since winter is coming, Brian will need to learn how to survive or be ready for death.
He has to stay warm and eat, but he is stranded out in the middle of nowhere. Brian can't come in contact with anyone and needs to kill animals by himself and skin them to stay warm. Throughout this book Brian comes into conflict with other animals such as wolves, a deer, a bear, and the almighty moose. Which the moose has a big part in this book.
I liked this book a lot. It had a lot of details that made this book very easy to understand and picture in my mind as it went on. I also liked how Brian was trying to make friends with the animals and just how he is surviving in the wilderness is what I like best about the book. For Brian's Winter I would give this book a 9 out of 10 because of how the book was very detailed and easy to understand.

I read a very good book named Brian`s Winter. I think this is a good book about survival. It is about a 14-year-old kid named Brian, who is lost in the forest and has to survive with his own skills - I think the best part is when Brian hunted a moose with his bow and arrow and then tries to figure out how to get the meat back to his cabin. Brian`s Winter is the 3rd book in Gary Paulson`s survival series. I would rate this book an 8. I think this is a good book and i bet you will to.

In Brian�s Winter, Brian Robeson a 13-year-old boy stranded in the Canadian Wilderness. Learning how to survive on his own. He makes himself a home to sleep and eat. He hunts for food using the tools that he made. He used bow arrows to hunt his dinner and his knife to skin them. Plus it is winter and his clothes are ripped up almost. His clothing is bad. He uses rabbit�s skin and deerskin for clothing. He makes snowshoes to walk around in the snow. One last thing he is stranded for 94 days all alone.
What I liked about this story is that it is descriptive; when he kills the moose and skins it. Also when he learns how to make bow arrows, snow shoes. I like this book because it keeps you hanging at the end of each chapter. What I liked about is that you can imagine all the things that Brian does in the wilderness. What I didn�t like about the book is sometimes there is nothing going on and it is boring. What I didn�t like about the book is when he describes in details when he skins the moose. He is very descriptive then.
The genre of this book is Realistic Fiction. I would probably give it from a scale of 1-5, a four. I like the book, but parts of it was boring. Also some parts you can easily misunderstand. Some parts you can imagine how he feels, just the way he talks. Also when he acts you can understand, why acts that way. All in all I liked this book; I really enjoyed reading this book.

The title of the book is Brian's Winter it is written by Gary Paulsen. Brian Robeson a 13-year-old boy names Brian Robeson has to survive the cold Canadian winter. In the wilderness Brian faces many challenges like food. In order to hunt Brian makes a bow and arrow, a war bow, and a lance. Another challenge is staying warm. In order to stay worm Brian has to make many things the first thing he does is builds a ventilation system for his cave to make a fire inside without being full of smoke. He also, makes gloves, a hooded vest, snow boots, and snowshoes to walk on top of the deep snow without sinking.
I think Gary Paulsen wrote this story to tell about survival and just so the reader can enjoy it. He also wrote this as a follow up on the story Hatchet. I think Gary wrote about the setting the best in the woods during the winter, he described it very well.
The character Brian develops to the wilderness though out this story. One of the ways he developed was he learned that boiling the meat is better than just cooking it over the flame. Another example he learned is that he is not an animal and the other animals will not respect his territory what he thought was his.
The only thing that the book needs is a better ending. I would recommend this book if you like nature or survival stories. On a scale 1-5 I would give this book a 4 only because the ending could have been better.

Brian's plane crashes on an abandoned island! No one within over 100 miles. How does he survive? After making two bows, six arrows, meeting a pack of wolves twice, metting a bear twice, getting a roommate(a skunk), killing many rabbits, killing a deer, being trampled by a moose, and rebuilding his shelter five or six times, Brian gets rescued. I think this book is made to be read by a sixth grader and is outstanding. I highly recomend this book if you enjoy camping and adventure.

The book Brian's winter is about a boy named Brian Robeson. He takes a trip on an airplane and the aircraft has a malfunction and crashes. The pilot dies but Brian miraculously lives. In Brian's new life he faces many dangers and experiences many new things in the forest. Like exploding trees from cold winter nights. Also he learns how to hunt with a bow and arrow and learn how to survive by only he knowledge and skills of a good hunter.
I would have to give this a seven out of an scale from one to ten. Because I like the book. The parts that I liked was when Brian thought that he could beat up a bear with a stick, and how he made a friend that was a skunk and named her Betty. The other part that I liked was when Brian heard something go boom in the trees. He later went to go explore it and found out that the trees explode when it gets to cold out. Then as he was looking at it the tree blew up right in front of him and nearly killed him.
I like this book because it gave good details the author made me feel like I was in the book hunting and in the shelter feeling the warmth from the fire. I even imagined all of the pain that Brian had to go threw to live there. But he pulled threw and made it out of situations I thought he would have died in. The book also taught me many things about the forest and how to not abuse the things that I have because it can change anytime.

As many peple know in Gary Paulsen's Award-Winning Novel Hatchet Brian Robeson was stranded alone in the Canadian Wilderness and survived. But what if Brian hadn't been rescued? I found out in this exciting sequel by Gary Paulse, called Brian's Winter.

As you go through the book Brian tells s day after day how he stays alove. From starvation, to furious animals, to winter. what was really good about this book was that the author was writing on real lofe techniques. I doubt that he ever got stuck alone in the wilderness but Paulsen alwasys basis his books on the outdorrs.

Gary Paulsen realy makes the book realistic, he writes with such details and makes you really think that you were there. Here's how Brain describes the snowy forest "It was a world of beauty. It's like being inside glass, he thought, a beautiful glass crystal."

Brain goes on waiting to be rescued and as he does, he starts to become one with nature. He becomes more comfortable around the animals, and discovers a lot of survival techniques. Like you have to boil water to get it clean, and he had to face his fears of killing animals to live. "He skinned, peeling it back a half inch at a time all along the body. (P. 82). But summer is soon over and Brian has to learn how to survive winter.

The only thing that I didn't like about the book was that Paulsen described the killing animal parts to well. Other then that, Bran's Winter was an wxciting novel that I would recommend to a lot of people.

Gary Paulsen brings alive the beautiful and amazing wilderness in the mind's of his readers, in Brian's Winter. The novel is about a thirteen-years old boy, who struggles to survive in the Canadians woods. As the summer is turning into fall, and fall into winter he has to start preparing for the cold and brutal time of the year. He's been stuck in the wilderness for 54 days, but is he ready for the winter that he's never experienced before?
As the temperatures and nature begin to change, Brian realizes that winter is coming. He knows that the main things that he needs to stay alive are clothes, food, water, and a good shelter. He also needs a fire to keep his warm. He makes new weapons, which help him in hunting larger animals. He uses animal skins to make clothes and meat to keep him from starving. One of the survival tips that Brian learns is to never waste anything, because it might be useful later.
I really like this novel, because it's a very educating and also adventurous story. I also liked the way this novel was written by Gary Paulsen. He gives good description and details for his readers, which helped me with better understanding of book. I would rate this book 8 out of 10, because I liked most parts of the book. If you like action and survival stories, I recommend that you check out Brian's Winter, by Gary Paulsen.

Ninety - four days in the wilderness, forty degree below zero temperature, no food, and you're alone without any contact to the outside world. Now you know how Brian Robeson felt in the novel Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen. Brian was on his way to see he father in Canada when his four-passenger plane crashed into a lake because of the pilot's sudden heart attack. Brian has to now face winter and the challenges of the woods. He has to hunt for food, make his own clothing to stay warm and learn how to be friend the animals. Not that tough you say?
Gary Paulsen is a survival writer, he wrote the Hatchet series and Brian's Winter is book number two out of the three book series. I think he wrote this book to entertain but also to teach us some survival tips incase we ever get in that sort of a situation. I agree with the message that he sends out through his book because of the fact that he knows what he's doing. The best part of the book in my opinion was the climax because it was written so well, he is good at writing suspenseful situations.
The main character was of course, Brian Robeson, a thirteen-year-old boy who was just like any of us, regular kid. I wouldn't want him to help me out if I crashed in the wilderness because he wasn't sure of what he was doing a lot. He didn't know much, like how to build a fire or how to make arrowheads. I think I could survive on my own, but I would like to just stay home and not be stranded in the woods, thank you very much!
If I could change one thing in this book to make it perfect I would have to change the main character. I didn't like the way Brian did things. I would have made the main character about six-teen years old and kind of muscular. That way he could do more like kill moose with just a spear. I would rate this book a 4 out of 5 because it was very good. I liked how everything went except there were some slow parts but it was over all good.
Finally I would have to recommend this book to everyone. I would hope everyone would read the whole series and learn how to live in the wilderness. So if your ever stranded, whip out your novel of Brain's Winter and you should be fine.

The book Brian�s winter by Gary Paulsen. The book takes place from late summer to winter the main character is Brian, Brian is 13 years old when his plan crashed on an island. He lives in the wilderness for about 94 days and during that time he encounters many obstacles like a charging moose vary cold wind and lots of snow. He also makes some friends as in a skunk he starts to talk to it like it is a person brian also lears a lot more many skills he maks bow�s and arrows a lance he uses skin from the animals and heats them up so he streches them out and lets the dry and uses it as clothing.
I really like this book a lot just because the way Gary gets into the mind of the reader and puts a good visual in my head. He writes the book in second person view witch I like a lot. But some bad things about the book is that the book is a little short it would be a lot better if it was a little longer. Another dislike of the book it is the ending is really weird.
On a scale of one to ten as ten being the best I rate this book a nine. It really made an effect on me and the way he rites to connect to the reader. The genera is a realistic fiction. It is also a good way to get survival tips for if you are ever lost in a forest or in the wilderness. I would recommend this book to many people if I knew a lot of people.

A young teenager named Brian Robenson was stranded in Canada's wilderness from a plane crash that he survived. Brian only had a few pieces of equipment to use to survive. Brian had many downfalls in his adventure but somehow he survived living on moose, deer, rabbits, and any other prey he can hunt down. During Brian's Winter Brian learned about many skills he didn't know he had. You'd be surprised by how Brian survived on his small equipment. Through these 94 days in the wilderness. Brian has learned a new way of life that is hard to survive in and to not give up still thinking there is something out there to live for (his father or his mother).
Brian's Winter is a very interesting book I recommend to everyone that likes survival books and all that good stuff. Survival books are very interesting like this one but this book is part of a survival series. Other books that Gary Paulson has written that go along with this book are Hatchet, The River. If you like reading books that where the characters in the story don't quit and just keep trying hard then you will definitely like this book, I guarantee it. Before my teacher introduced me to this book I never heard of it before. When I read the first few chapters I got addicted to the story that is why I believe that anyone would like it.

The Book Brian's Winter was an overall good read. It was about a boy named Brian who was stranded in the middle of a remote location in Canada after his plane crashed in the summer. It picks up where the previous award winning novel; Hatchet by Gary Paulsen left off. Instead of summer, the book takes place in the season of fall quickly changing to winter. During the novel, he encounters many new things, such as bears, skunks, and a moose or two. Brian had to rely on his hunting skills from the past and his overall common sense knowledge to survive the harsh upcoming winter. There were many good aspects of this book.
The main aspect of the book that I liked about it was the exciting action and good elements of surprise through out every chapter. I think that there were really no bad aspects of this particular novel. Although, I might say the one thing that I didn't like about it was the ending. It kind of just sounded a little too plain. If there were never any sort of epilogue, you would probably be left wondering what really happens in the end. If you like the outdoors, hunting, or just would like to explore a different of genre of books that you are not use to. I suggest that you go pick up yourself a copy of Brian's Winter. I most likely rate this book an 3.5-4 out of 5 stars.

The title of the book is Brain�s Winter, and the author is Gary Paulsen. The book starts off when Brian Robenson, who is thirteen years old, is going to see his father in Canada, and he gets into a plane crash. The plane crashes into a lake and it is surrounded by wilderness. Brian has to try to hunt for food but he has never hunted before and does not want to kill any animals. He does not know but winter is coming soon and if he does not get things prepared for the winter he will probably freeze to death. What will happen to Brian when the winter comes?
To start off with, Brain was stranded in the wilderness for 94 days and he had done these things to help him survive. Brian made tools, such as a lance to kill big animals, and some arrowheads for his bow and arrow. He also made things like a vest, a hood, gloves, and he made things like a shoes from the rabbit fur so it keeps his feet warm. Brian learned that you could use everything in the animal. The thing he used most was the meat and the fur. One big event was when the moose attacked Brian. The moose knocked him out and when he woke up the moose was on him with the lance in the chest of the moose. When Brian woke up he was in so much pain, but he had to get the moose back to the shelter because other animals could have eaten it and because there was a lot of food to last him for a long time. Those are some of the big events that Brian had did or faced.
The rating I would give this book is a three because it was a good book but is was boring in some of the parts. Also it was really exciting in other parts and I wanted to keep reading. The book left me with some suspense at the end of the book. I would recommend this book to people because is was a good novel to read in your spare time. Read the novel Brain�s Winter and see if Brian gets rescued or if he has to stay in the wilderness longer.

I like this book,because it talks about survive without shelter just by your own self alone in an island, with a big bear trying to eat you. That's what happend to Bryan he's a kid who was going to see his dad who was in another country he was been take in a plane. Then the plane crash and he's alone by his self with a big bear who's trying to kill him. He can't sleep because he just thinks about the bear, who could come and kill him and eat him.I think this book is exiting because it talks about the bear and Bryan who's trying to survive.

"Brian's Winter"

Author: Gary Paulsen

If you dont like reading novles about adventure in the wilderness, then this is not a novel for you. The main charector, Brian Robeson, is only thirteen years old, he learned to survive alone in the wilderness for a very long time because he was stranded there. While reading this novel, you will wonder what would happen if Brian was never rescued and how he would survive this. You will read about Brian's wild adventure in the winter.

Overall, I didn't care for this novel a lot because this novel is only about what would have happend to Brian if he had never been found. But, through out this story, you know that Brian did get rescued. You know this because of the ending to "Hatchet." There are also two other novels that relate to Brian Robeson. These are called, "The River," and "Brian's Return". Some good parts of this novel are the plot, setting and the charectors. I liked these things in the book most because they seem to grab me and lift me up to read this whole entire novel. I also like it that these are well written in this novel because the put me in the position of what it would be like to accualy be stranded alone in the Canadian Wilderness. This novel is vert exciting ang WILL literally keep you on the edge of you'r seat until you are able to finish it. I highly recomend the author of these books, Gary Paulsen!

The book brains winter was a really good book. Over the course of Brains adventures he changes. He no longer wastes food or energy. He is also changed metal too. He has a much greater respect for life. I would recommend this book to anyone. It is very interesting. I think that if you like action and adventure should read this book. This book is a real page-turner. Chapter after chapter, it is truly a work of art. When you're done you'll want more Paulson.

Brains winter
The story Brains Winter is a continuation to Hatchet. This is about a boy in his teen years and he is in a plane crash. The pilot suffers a heart attack and he is left on his own. That is Hatchet and Brian's winter starts when the charter is about two moths in the forest. The story is starting in fall and the main character Brian has established a fort and learned many things like how to hunt. Nevertheless, the winter is approaching so he has to prepare. Here are my personal reviews for this book so enjoy.
The author of this story is Gary Paulsen and he is known for writing realistic adventure books. I think the purpose of this book is to show how difficult it is to survive in the wilderness. I enjoy this book because the author wrote this book as if I was there. I agree with his message that is how difficult it is to survive. I think that Gary Paulsen did an extordenary job writing this book. I only wish that this had turned into a movie.
Moving on the best thing in this book is the plot and the setting. He described every think so clearly. This has to be the best adventure book besides Hatchet. The main character in this story is Brian Robinson. He starts living in the wilderness with some experience. However, winter is approaching. If I had to be stuck on a deserted island, I would not pick him. Brian has experience but has not lived in the cold.
Lastly, Brian's Winter has been less then perfect in many ways. To begin with there were too little fights with animals and I would like to see more inventions. However, to me Brian had his life too easy. He did not really have a lot of trouble. To him every thing came too easy

In the novel Brian's Winter a boy named Brian Robeson gets in a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness. He was stuck there for about 94 days now. Well with in those days Brian made a lot of mistakes like not look at what is going on around you like the weather for example. Well Brian did pay attention to the animals like the beavers, bears, wolves, and rabbits. Brian first came to the Canadian wilderness with just a hatchet. But when Brian finally noticed what was going on around him he made things like snowshoes and a parka to help him survive.
I liked the novel Brian's Winter because it gives you a lot of good survival tips to know how to live in the wilderness, if it ever happens to you at all in your lifetime. I also had a connection or to, like when he felt bad when he killed the animals, but you need to for you to survive. I also liked the way that the author kept on making you guess what was going to happen. That is what made me want to read the book more and more One of the dislikes that I had in the novel was that some of the graphics of when he killed some animals I thought it was gross.
I think I would rate this book a 9 out of 1-10 because of some of the graphics but other than that I think it was a rather good book.

In Gary Paulsen's Brian's Winter, 13-year-old Brian Robesen is still stuck in the wilderness. Fall comes and Brian starts to notice that it is getting colder outside. He decides that he must improve his shelter and the clothing that he has to stay alive in the Canadian wilderness. Winter gets closer and closer so Brian must gather more than enough supplies to stay alive during the winter. Snow falls and Brian is packed in the shelter for days at a time. He learns how to skin and gut an animal and how to make clothing out of it. Brian is also faced with other challenges.
I thought this book was very well planned out and it had many details. It also taught me something about how to stay alive during a cold period of time if I ever came across the situation Brian was ever in. I also liked how Brian had a connection with some of the animals in the wilderness such as the wolves because he learned how to make territory with his urine. I disliked how in some parts of the book it didn't make sense to me at all and at times this book was a little boring because I'm not into a lot of action books like this one, so sometimes I lost interest in the book.
If I were to rate the book 1-5 I would give Brian's Winter a 3 ½ because like I said before the book would get very boring in certain places but all and all it was an interesting and educational book.It also had a lot of details also.

Brian Robeson had no chance to share his feelings and information about a big family's secret with his dad. (Hatchet) After the plane crashed to the lake, Brian spend more then three months in the Canadian Wilderness alone, and he survived only with his hatchet. At first he was hoping that somebody will find him, but time passing fast, and no one has found him. Everybody thought that Brian is not alive anymore. Brian started a new life in the wilderness, he made his own "house", found new friends.
In this book you will find a lot of information about survival tips, benefits from the nature, and also about hunting. You will learn how to build a shelter, how to make a fire, how to make weapons and more.
If you are interested in how Brian survived in the Canadian Wilderness during the wintertime, when weather is colder than you can imagine, you should read this book.
I liked this book because the author did a good job to create a vivid picture in your mind when you are reading this novel. Gary Paulsen described all Brian's life in the wilderness by the things he learned from the animals, lessons from his mistakes. The best thing about this book is that this novel Brian's Winter is not boring at all.

IN FIFTH GRADE BOOKCLUB I READ THIS BOOK BRIAN'S WINTER . IT WAS FANTASTIC!!!!!! I GIVE THIS BOOK A 5. GARY PAULSEN SHOULD CONTINUE WRITING EXCITING STORIES LIKE BRIAN'S WINTER OR MAYBE PRODUCE A MOVIE. THE BEST PART OF THE BOOK WAS WHEN THE BEAR'S BUTT WAS IN BRIAN'S FACE AND BRIAN KICKED IT . I'M GETTING CARRIED AWAY ABOUT THIS . I HOPE MY REVIEW ENCOURAGES MANY PEOPLE TO READ BRIAN'S WINTER OR ANY OTHER STORIES WRITTEN BY GARY PAULSEN.

Brian's Winter
The title of this book is Brian's Winter. It was written by Gary Paulsen. He is a world wide known author who has written many books. Such as the first part of this book called Hatchet. This books setting takes place in a forest in Canada. Brian who is a thirteen-year-old boy, Brian started off not thinking that winter would be that harsh but when it was all over he knew he made a mistake, by underestimating it. Over this novel Brian made different things that would help him conquer winter. He made many items such as clothes that were all made by animal fur. Some hunting utensils he made were a lance, a bow and arrow, and something he already had his hatchet. He also survived by eating different animals such as a rabbit, fool bird, a dear, and his most famous kill a moose. He did have a couple encounters with wild animals one being with a bear and one with a moose, both were nearly fatal. Well that was the summary of what happened in Brains Winter without giving away the ending.
I think the authors purposeriting this book was to acknowledge the fans that wanted a sequel from The Hatchet. Overwhelming amounts of people wanted it so I would agree why he did write it. His message for this book was clear to me; he wanted to show people how hard it really was to survive in the winter. The literary element I like the best was the setting. He really did a good job with the description of even the smallest things. Also he always put a visual picture in my head.
The main character of this book was Brian Robeson. He was a thirteen-year-old boy who as stranded in the woods for over 100 days. The way he developed was remarkable he started off as a boy and he left as a man. He learned so many different things and by doing that he survived. I would let him save me because he knows so much and he would be able to.
I would rate this book a 5 out of 5. It was a very well written book and it ranks high on my best-read books also. I would tell anyone I see to read this book. It has both suspense and it has a mystery to. I hoped you liked my critic on Brian's Winter.

Cassie Alexander
Reading A-1
Brian's Winter
Brian's Winter is a riveting survival story of a young boy's adventure through the wild. You will read of the many discovers Brian makes along the way. The decision he makes and how he over comes the wilderness. How he is able to feed himself and make a shelter to live in during he's time spent there. Read the mistakes that Brian has learned and how he deals with being alone, so far away from he's family.
I don't read much but I'm the kind of person that likes to read mystery, fantasy, love story's etc. Occasionally I do find a book like this one that keeps me interested in survival and it makes me want to finish it. The book is a page-turner it's like what happens next, you just can't wait.
I personally rate this book on a 1-10 scale (1 is bad, 10 is very good). This book to me is a 10, I loved the book that much. The whole idea of the book was great. The idea of a young man going thought the wild show's how strong one can be when Put in danger. How he makes weapon and the knowledge he has is amazing. The strength he has to go on and never stop because he knows someday they will find him.

This was a good sequal book to "Hatchet" though I though that it was too perdictable. I mean that in the end you knew that Brain was to be saved. Also Brain remembered Everything he saw about survival and off TV. But it was exciting in parts. But that bear could and can hurt Brain a bit more than it did. Why couldn't Brain come down w/ the flu or something? He didn't even have a headach for that matter. Not one of the best I've ever read.

In Brian�s Winter, Brian is left stranded in the wilderness in Canada. He only has so long, before winter starts and he must begin to prepare quickly. Brian builds a shelter and keeps a fire lit inside to keep it nice and warm. He leans how to hunt and survive on his own. Brian has had a few problems with animals. Brian has made friends with some animals and has had some terrifying, near death experiences with animals. But that didn�t keep him from surviving. Since the weather was 30 below zero, he has to make sure he doesn�t stay outside very long because he could freeze to death. It�s been months since Brian has seen a person at all. He has found some sort of track in the snow. He knows that it�s too far out to be anyone. But what could it be from?
Now that you know what the book is about and the main points of it, I will tell my personal opinion on the book. I thought this was a very good book. One of the things I liked most about the book was how even though I didn�t read the first book, it still let me know what was going on in the beginning of Brian�s Winter. It was very suspenseful also. Which is good for types of books like this. I always wanted to keep reading to find out what was going to happen next.
I would give this book a four out of five for my rating. I would rate it a four because some of it was a little confusing. The ending wasn�t very good either, but since you have not read it yet, I wont give it away. But I am looking forward to the second book �The River.�

Brian's Winter Final Exam Essay
The novel Brian's Winter written by Gary Paulsen is about a young 13-year-old boy named Brian Robeson who was in an airplane accident and now is stranded in the Canadian Wilderness. He will need to find his own way on getting food, making a shelter, and clothes. Winter started coming and Brian didn't know how to prepare, which left him not ready for the frigid temperature and finding food to eat. What do you think Brian used to help him make his clothes? Do u think Brian will survive in the wilderness? I think Gary Paulsen wrote this novel to teach kids how to survive in the wilderness.
I liked the setting of the story because it's in winter and when it snows it makes towns look pretty and the authors choice of words makes it easy for me to picture how pretty it would be in the wilderness when its snowing.
Brian has become stronger and smarter after being stranded in the wilderness. He now knows how to survive on his own. I would want Brian to help me to survive in the wilderness because he knows exactly what to do in a position like that. I think Brian is a very brave young man to go threw 94 days in the wilderness all by him self trying to survive (hunted for food, fished, made a shelter, and made his own clothes). He also survived a moose attack.
I rate this book a 5 out of 5 because I like the setting and I think the author did an outstanding job on this book. I also liked this book because it's an action type of book and I like books with action in it. I thought it was very interesting. If I was to change anything in this story I'd take out the beginning when it was all nice and beautiful out and then it turns cold and snowy. Id just start the story when he first saw the snow coming down.

Dear Mr. Paulsen, I am a 7th grader at Cadillac Middle School and my class read Brians Winter.I found it to be a very interesting book ,even more than The Hatchet. My favorite part is when the trees started to explode because it was so cold.Can that really happen?I also liked the part when he killed the moose.Do you plan on making a 4th book about Brian? I just wanted to tell you that Brians Winter is a great book and I am starting The River.

Brian's Winter Essay

By: Gary Paulsen

Dan Cygal

The book is Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen also the genre is fiction. The setting takes place deep deep in the wilderness of Canada. Where a great deal of lakes and creatures live and are located. The seasons that occur in the novel are Fall and the cold Winter. The place he ends up in is by a decently sized lake surrounded by more lake and forests of many shapes and sizes. He stays close to the lake because of the frightening fear of getting lost. He settles in by three rocks that seem to take the shape of a rectangular shape that form a shelter. That he sets camp at and calls it home for now. He is many miles from the closest civilization.

The main character name is Brian Robison. He's a young kid that is Fourteen years old and is stuck in the wilderness of Canada alone. But he slowly learns and many things from past experience, television, and what he has seen in stores to help him survive. With that kind of knowledge he has a chance of surviving or getting rescued. He made spears, arrows, bow, and many other weapons and tools that he used to hunt and also to defend himself from the animals. He might not be the strongest man but he knows how to kill big game.

Some main events that occurred was when Brian killed the moose that weighted about seven hundred pounds. Also when he got a pet skunk called betty that saved his life. When he discovered how to make snow shoes, arrow heads, and clothing out of animal hide. When Brian hears gun shots but their really trees that are exploding at night.

Some quotes are "I'm fat" when he eats so much that he was gaining weight instead of losing it because he had lots of food and everything he needed. Another is "Great day" He makes a war bow he practices with it and goes hunting he shots two animals he gets so excited that he got a lot of food and calls it a great day.

The book is as I said is a great book on a five star scale I would give the book a four star. I enjoyed how I learned a lot about survival and the wilderness also. Another I learned a lot about Gary like he like the wilderness a lot and outdoors. Another is he ran away from home because it was rough at home so he joined a circus. The writing style that Gary chooses I mostly like especial how he give very long descriptive and vivid. Also how he paints an image in your head. But I dislike how he sometimes can't get to the point and takes too many pages to tell on event that is not important.

Brian's Winter

Gary Paulsen

Nicole Courtney

Imagine being stranded in the Northern Canadian

Wilderness with no contact of the outside world. Gary

Paulsen explains in Brian's Winter how the main

character Brian survives all alone in the isolated,

peaceful woods. Although it may be quite and

beautiful, it is known for being extremely cold,

especially in the winter. Brian had no where to go.

The main character Brian, is all alone in the woods,

thriving to survive. The only thing that he had was

the survival pack that he got at the bottom of the

lake in the previous book, Hatchet. Brian survived

fifty-four days in the wilderness before he was able

to retrieve it. This shows that Brian is very brave to

stay in the wilderness all by himself. By the end of

the book, Brian is almost immune to living outside. "

He had neglected the camp and spent all the next day

cleaning the shelter, bringing in more wood,

retightening the snowshoes, checking the bowstring and

sharpening the hatchet and knife."(Paulsen 124)

Brian is a very interesting character that keeps that

story alive. He is always thinking for the next thing

to do to keep himself alive. He recalls back on T.V

shows and movies that he watched to remember some

simple survival tips. He also thinks about the simple

things in life. In this novel, readers remember him

because he is always thinking on his feet. " Those

people were pros, he thought- the Native Americans who

had made the points centuries before. They lived all

the time as Brian was trying to live now and they have

experimented for thousands of years to come up with

the designs of the heads. Brian tried to close his

eyes and try to remember what they had looked

like"(Paulsen 27) Gary explains how Brian recalls fond

memories to shape his arrow heads.

As some people may know, Gary Paulsen has won many

awards for his survival novels. He won a Newbery Honor

Award for his novel hatchet. He explains with a lot

of detail and gives tons of useful information that

you could use in the great outdoors. I really enjoyed

this book because I always wanted to know what Brian

was going to do next. I learned a lot from this book,

and I think I would be pretty prepared if I were

stranded in the Canadian Wilderness. I liked the way

Gary kept me hanging on a string to see what was going

to happen next. I also like the way that Gary told the

story from a narrators point of view so that we don't

really see Brian's emotional side. This gives the

story a lot more room to teach the readers about

Northern Canada. I would defiantly recommend this book

to anyone.

Brian survived a long time in the wilderness. He was

there for over 94 days. He had learned a lot in his

experience. Did you know that Gary usually writes

books on things that he has experienced himself? He

knows a lot about the outdoors and wants to teach his

readers. Brian learns about the wild and makes many

new friends.

As you can see, Brian's Winter is a great book to

read. I recommend that you read the book to see what

happens to Brian in this adventure novel. I hope that

you enjoy it as much as I did and be sure to tell all

of your friends!

I have read this book to students for the past four years. It captures their attention from the start. Girls and boys both seem to enjoy the book. When I have mentioned to the students other books by this author, they actually start to bring the books to me and ask me to read them. Great read!!!

All about Brian's Winter

One really extraordinary book that I have read and really enjoyed is Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen. This book took place in the Canadian Wilderness. It was really cold that winter for a boy that just got into a plane crash and no one there to help him survive on his own.

The main character in Brian's Winter is, Brian. He is only a thirteen year old boy that had to just think of things that he say in his past just to help him survive. He has been lost in the Canadian Wilderness for about two an a half months. To be lost in the wilderness, you have to be able to support yourself. You are going to have to know how to hunt and be able took keep your self warm and know what's okay to eat and what's not okay to eat. Also you would have to know what food you have to cook right so you don't get sick.

One of the most important part in this book is how well he learned how to surive in the wilderness all by himself. He was well at killing animals with the arrow that he made. Also, he had to recall some of the things that he had learned in the past like, how the beavers made their dam stick together with mud..

A few examples from the book is when he was trying to keep his self warm, "No clothing, although he still had some rabbit hides, which he could sew into sleeves for his vest. There was also the hide from the doe. He looked at the deer and thought that he might get a pair of moccasins out of it." Also, he thought about using the memory that he had to do some of the stuff that he did while he was lost in the wilderness.

To conclude everything this book has the genre of fiction. This book would fit into a very adventurous story because of all the adventures that Brian went on just looking for food and the whole plane crash that got Brian there in the first place. I really enjoy Gary Paulsen's writing style. I like the fact that he used lots of description in the book. I like having a picture in my head on what I am reading. Also, Gary does have a sense of humor. When you think that he is going to get really serious he would say some thing funny. The voice that Gary is using for Brian is kind of hard to tell because Brain is the one talking (1st person). Finally the book way that I feel about this book is, I really enjoyed it. It gave me a little bit of tips just in case I were to get lost in the wilderness I would know some things.

I just ordered the series for my son. Haven't received it yet though because like I said I just ordered them. My son is 17 years old and unfortunately is incarcerated. Being there he has the opportunity to use the library and grabbed the book hatchet. And started reading it and finished reading the whole book. This kid does not read at all he refuses too. But being he read that book it has encouraged him to read the series. Thank you so much

Brian's Winter
A 13-year-old boy stranded in the woods, by himself with no survival skills. A terrible plane crash left him alone to survive in the wilderness but his worst enemy is just being born...winter. Brian realizes that the killer cold is approaching, sneaking up on him from all around. He learns some survival skills by tying to stay worm and to make a shelter for the winter.
Thanks to his nuclear pet device, which is a skunk that Brian named Betty, Brian defeats the attack of a bear. His weapons get better as he makes a war bow and some big, strong arrows for protection and decides to hunt a bigger game. False gunshot like sounds keep Brian's heart racing. He listens, waits and hopes for another person to appear in this lonely world. As he sets out to explore the woods he sees a line. This line, made on the snow could be Brian's first contact with a person for a very long time. Brian races towards the line and is surprised by what he finds.
What I liked most about this book was its suspenseful moments and those breathtaking descriptions of the world in which Brian lived. The story was full of action and surprise. This book also gave the reader a lot of helpful tips for survival. In a scale of one through five I would give this book a rating of four and a half out of five for its outstanding action, suspense and wonderful storyline.

This is the sequel to Hatchet and is very well written. It is about the scenario that Brian is not rescued. He must begin to use his bow and arrow again because his gun breaks. He eventually finds tracks in the snow and follows them to find a trapper. It is all in all a very good book except I recommend that you read the book, Hatchet before you read the book, Brian's Winter because gives you a better perspective on Brian's position.

Brian's Winter

Gary Paulsen

Irineo Vargas

Have you ever gotten lost in the Canadian Wilderness? Well Brian did. The

name of this book is Brian's Winter, and the is Gary Paulsen. Brian was stranded in the

wild. He arrived after a plane crash in the Fall and was there for most of the Winter. It

was in the Northern Canadian Wilderness, which is close to the North Pole. The Winter

gets very cold and intense. The time period is about in the 90's.

The main character is Brian, who is an average boy about thirteen years old!

Brian is very brave and has no fear. He has no fear of living in the wilderness by himself.

He is very determined, to solve his problems such as finding food. He is also very

intelligent. He created clothes from the hides of the animals. He also built his own

shelter, he was able to build by observing the Beavers. He is also very athletic, he was

always working to build his shelter and hunting.

There were a lot of important events in this book. One of them was when one day

Brian was out hunting and he spotted a moose. It was really a Cow because it was

female. He shot at the Cow once but missed. Then he shot at it again a second time and

it hit in a vital area. But the Cow was still up. The cow went into a rage and charge at

Brian. It hit Brain, Brian got knocked out. When Brian woke up he the Cow was on top

of him. While he was on conscious he had a flashback about his mother. Another event

is when he two loud pops. He thought it was two loud gun shots. But it was just pieces

of a tree snapping because of how cold it was. One more major event is was when he

was out hunting and he saw a deer. He shot it vital organ but it didn't die instantly.

Brian felt guilty and bad because the deer didn't die instantly.

Now I will talk to you about some quotes from the story. One quote was when

Brian woke up from the hit from the Cow gave him. He had a flashback "His mother

calling for him to come back. He was little again, a small boy and playing outside, and

his mother was calling for him to come inside but he couldn't move because there was a

huge weight on him, holding him down, keeping him from coming home..." Brian was

having a flashback. This flashback was about when he was a little boy and was out

playing in his house. Then his mom started to call for him but he couldn't go inside

because something was holding him back. In an other quote Brian called himself fat he

said "I am fat". Brian called himself fat because he would hunt and kill a lot. He would

kill a full grown deer for food.

The author of this book is Gary Paulsen. Gary Paulsen was born on May

17, 1939. He has also written another part to the Brian series, the name of this book is

Brian's Return. This book is a Young adult fiction. I think the genre is right for this

book because it really attracts the attention of the reader and is a very surprising story. I

liked the way Gary Paulsen writes, he is a very descriptive writer. He creates pictures in

your mind. If I were to rate this book from a one to ten I would give it a ten. I would

give it a ten because it is a really interesting book. It is very adventurous. The author

puts pictures in your head. He writes in a really descriptive way. It grabs your attention,

it almost feels like you are Brian trying to build your shelter, trying to hunt, and trying to

stay alive. That's why I gave this book a ten out of ten.

The setting is before winter in Canada and it`s cold. He is flying over the park and it crashes. All he has to survive with is a hatchet, bow and arrows, a shot gun and a few shot gun shells. He has to try and survive the dangerous winter and really dangerous predators, hunt for food, and try to some how figure out how to get home. While trying to survive he finds a skunk has it for a pet and names it Betty.FInally still in Canada he mets these people and brings him to live with them.

Ian Matchett

What I liked about the book was that it was so suspenseful. Also I though that it would be more interesting if he made a second episode. finnaly it would be even more interesting if he crashed in a desert.

B.O'
The book is a sequel to Gary Paulsen's pervious book, Hatchet. Summer has long since passed and it is fall already. Brian (the main character), who is trapped alone in the wilderness from a plane crash, made it through the summer. He notices changes in the weather, then nature tests him. Will he be able to make it in the winter, in extreme, arctic, sub-zero conditions? Through the winter he learns to adapt. He learns the concept - if the world doesn't adapt to you, you adapt to the world. He made an airtight shelter to live in complete with a fire pit and everything. He learns how to hunt, build tools, make food and make clothes. And make use of everything he had. Although by now he misses his family a lot, he has a calling, a calling to stay alive, come home and make it through the winter.
I felt that this was a pretty good book. It was definitely in my top three favorites, which include Holes and After the War. I like how it was set up and created good imagery in my head by the way the author writes. You can almost see the book unfolding in your head right before your eyes. I liked how it went in a certain order following what happened to Brian through the seasons. It didn't skip around with things that happened in the past that can be confusing to read. When the author wrote about that bitter cold day I could actually feel the biting cold by how he described the forest that day and how still it was. I could really sense and feel the trees exploding. The only thing I didn't like was all of the killing of animals and the sometimes-graphic descriptions of their bloody slaughters. When these were depicted they went on for a long time and I just wanted it to be over.
On a scale of 1-10, I would give this book a rating of 9 due to its great descriptions and detailed writing. Overall, I personally, I think this was a great novel. I loved it. It keeps you guessing till the end. It had lots of action and suspense. I liked it so much; I think I'll read it again, although I'm not much of a book person.

Brain's Winter is about this boy named Brain who gets stranded in the woods after a plane crash. Brain had to build his own shelter and find his own food to survive because no one was around to help him. He also had to deal with animals attacking him and the temperature being so cold. Brain has used animal furs to make clothes so he kept warm during the day and night.
In the book Brain's Winter I liked how Brain was so young and he knew how to start a fire. I was surprised he knew how to build himself a shelter, kill an animal to get food, and also that he survived for 96 days on his own. I disliked how he described how the wolves killed the moose.
The rating this book that I would give this novel would be 4 in a half out of 5. Besides that fact I liked how everything else was described like how the tree's were exploding. I also liked how the writer had Brian be a young person and how he could survive on his own in the wilderness. If anyone likes suspense in a book I would encourage him or her to read Brain's Winter.

The book starts out with brian missing the signs of winter, and low and behold winter comes and Brian is unprepared. Now every decision Brian makes could be the difference between life and death. I really enjoyed this book. I think that the way that Gary Paulsen writes his book gives his readers a mental picture of what is going on in the story. I recommend this book to any one who likes out doors and survival books.

This book is so cool; it has lots of adventures and action. It is filled with animles. It is a great guide on living in the wild. Once you start reading this book you can't put it down. I enjoyed this book a lot because it reminds me so much of me and what I would do if I was I was in the wilderness all alone, and the author made it seem so real and wrote it so well. This is the best book ever, it will make you fill so wild and ready to go and hunt or something. Please read this book it so awesome.

Brian's winter is about a teenage boy who survies a plane crash.the problem is that he is forced to live in the canadian woods. Then even more trouble... auteum and winter. Read this book and learn how he survies. he builds a log cabin and lives in there for shelter. Here how he takes on a moose. but theres a problem all the meat brings a bear to his shelter. This book is not for someone who does like to think or hear about blood and killing. I greatly recommend it.

Brian is in a plane crash in the wilderness with no food or shelter. What does he need to survive? How is he going to make it through the freezing winter? Read this book to see what happens to Brian when he faces animal attacks and difficult problems, such as, how is he getting home? Buy this book to find out if Brian will ever make it home alive or not, especially with the threat of starving to death.

Brian's Winter
Have you ever been camping? You were out in the wilderness, but it was controlled. Brian in "Brian's Winter" was trapped in the wilderness. With only his common sense he had to survive. I will be telling you what I thought of the novel.
Gary Paulsen wrote this novel called "Brian's Winter". If you liked Hatchet you will love this book. Gary wrote this as a sequel to tell people what would have happened if Brian had to live through the winter. His descriptions of the setting were so in depth that you could see it in your mind.
Brian was a young teenager maybe 14 years old. He didn't have a lot of common sense about the wilderness, but he learned quickly. He really did not know things that everyone should know about the wilderness. He was a teen so what can you expect.
I thought this book was okay not a great book, but a good read. I gave it a 3 out of five. I didn't like the main character, but I liked the way the book was told. It was very descriptive.

Only half-way thru the book, but Paulsen definitely keeps the rhythm and suspense of the north woods alive here. Doesn't have the emotional subtext of the first novel, but still lives and breathes Brian's struggles, and gives us new perspectives on survival and determination as Brian confronts the unanticipateable challenges of the winter months.
As crisp and clear as the original.

The book Brian's winter is written by Gary Paulsen. The main character in the book is Brian Robeson who is a 13-year-old boy that is going to see his father when the plane crashed. Now Brian is stuck in the woods for summer through winter. Brian has to find food to eat by hunting animals like moose, rabbit, and deer to stay alive. Brian has to build shelter, and make his own fire.
I like this book because of all the survival tips it gives you. If I was stuck in the woods, I would not know what to do but after reading Brain's winter I now can survive in the woods. The boy is only 13-years-old he knew how to survive on his own, he must have been smart. Brian dose not know that winter is comeing so he has to prepare he
I give the book a rating of 9 because in the beginning of the book I was confused on what has happened in the first couple pages. At the end the book got a 10 because it got more interesting to me. The book is Realistic fiction. It is a good book so read it.

The book Brian�s winter is written by Gary Paulsen. The main character in the book is Brian Robeson who is a 13-year-old boy that is going to see his father when the plane crashed. Now Brian is stuck in the woods for summer through winter. Brian has to find food to eat by hunting animals like moose, rabbit, and deer to stay alive. Brian has to build shelter, and make his own fire.
I like this book because of all the survival tips it gives you. If I was stuck in the woods, I would not know what to do but after reading Brain�s winter I now can survive in the woods. The boy is only 13-years-old he knew how to survive on his own, he must have been smart. Brian dose not know that winter is comeing so he has to prepare he
I give the book a rating of 9 because in the beginning of the book I was confused on what has happened in the first couple pages. At the end the book got a 10 because it got more interesting to me. The book is Realistic fiction. It is a good book so read it.

He's done it again! Brians Winter is a smashing book woth real life details and real life experiences. It all starts when brian's piolate has a heart attack and crashes the plane into the Canadain Wilderness. Brian luckaly gets out of the plane in time, but he now has to battle for his life in the wilderness all by him self. The book starts in the fall and brian has built a sturdy home for himself and has mastered fire. As winter a pprouches he has to start all over again for new climates!

I like this book because it is about a boy that needs to survive all by himself. This book has a lot of excitement in it, for example Brian got hit by a moose, and guess what? He managed to kill the moose and take it back to his camp site. If you like adventurous books and think this sounds exciting, read this book.

I didn't like to read, but after I read this book, it really made me love it.

When I had first read the first few chapters of Brian's winter, I had known this book was going to be a story that I would remember for the rest of my life and maybe even use some of Brian's skill that I would learn later on in the book. When I had realized what he was going through all by him self and his life on the line, I realized what if that was me. I had realized what he had to do to stay alive such as kill many animals for food, or build a sturdy shelter for protection, and some animal skin for warmth. I really liked this book because it taught me a lot of useful things and the author helped me picture a lot of images in my head. I disliked how the author put some words that I did not understand. Brian was the main character that showed skill, different attitudes, and ways of survival. I would rate this book a 9 out of 10 because I really liked this book. I would recommend this book for all ages, I think it is a great book and it deserves to be honored.

I rate Brian's Winter an overall 4 because while the book was very good, I feel that it has some problems. Brain's Winter presents an inteesting story, asking the question, "What would have happened if Brain hadn't been rescued?" In Brain's Winter, Brain wasn't rescued and he had to survive the greatest trial in nature: winter. Though the book is great, I am vexed by a few problems. First of all, (Don't read this if you hadn't read the book), I can't really understand why that trapper family kept to themselves. Also, Brian seems so accustumed to killing and skinning his prey that it doesn't seem to befit his age. I mean, I'm thriteen and it'd take some time for me to get used to killing and skinning a deer. Despite it's faults though, Brian's Winter is still a great book.

After reading "Hatchet" anyone can say that this book is too predictable.I don't know why Paulsen had to write a sequel.The Hatchet story was a done deal.I have to admit that the story had a great storyline and plot but it still needs a lot of editing.Like many other reviewers said,I think it's too short.Given a choice,I would choose hatchet instead of this cheap sequel.I was definatly ripped off.

Brian is a 14 year old teenager who was in a plane that crashed and no one survived but him. He makes a shelter and hunts for food to stay alive. But what he doesnt know is that a harsh winter is in store for him with temperatures below -20 degrees. I recommend this book to the readers who like reading stories that take place in the outdoors. It is also a good book for readers who enjoy survival books.

This is a fun book about a 13 year old boy, named Brian, in the Canadian wilderness. This book was written by Gary Paulsen. Due to a terrible plane crash in the wilderness, Brian has to survive through the worst season of all, WINTER! He has to be smart to survive the snow, the cold and the animals. I liked the book because of all Brian's adventures. You'll love this story if you enjoy detailed survival stories.

Brain is still in the woods. He notices that winter is coming. He is right, in no time the air cools and winter is upon him. He builds a door for his shelter and seals his shelter with dried mud from the lake. He makes himself a big bow and calls it the war bow. He go`s out to test his "War bow" and finds a moose. He shoots the moose with a little arrow, but the arrow doesn`t go through all the way, and the enraged moose turns and charges at Brian. Brain dodges the mosse but the huge cow comes back for more. This time the moose hits him but stops before it could hit him again. All of a sudden the moose just flops down on Brian. Brain see`s that the spear he made went through the cows neck. Brian skins the moose and eats it, for what seem eternity. One day Brian sees a straight line in the snow. He follows it and sees a cabin in the middle of the woods. An actual person comes out of the cabin...

Brian's Winter
Gary Paulsen is the author of Brian's Winter. I believe that Gary's purpose for writing this novel was to show some survival skill that could help anyone in the wilderness. Also, Gary gives good descriptions of the settings, characters, and as you read his book you'll feel as if you're in it to.
Brian was the main character in the story. He does not really know how to survive, but in time he learns. Brian also learns to hunt, cook, listen to nature, and construct several things in the wild. At the beginning of the story Brian is home sick and lonely, but as he gets used to all the nature he calls it home and wants to stay.
I would rate this book a four out of five. Because it was well written and kept my interest through the whole book. I would highly recommend this book to any one who has the slightest bit of interest in nature. Though that is only two reasons of why you should read this book there are several other that you could find when you read Brian's Winter.

Totally awesome book. I would extremely recommend it to readers age 10 and up. I loved how Brian never lost confidence when trying to survive, like when he found out his hunting .22 rifle didn't work. He had to do it the old fashioned way. Never was tired of reading. Could read 1 million times and never get tired of this book. Teaches a valuable lesson to kids. Great book. Recommended to anyone.

Totally awesome book. I would extremely recommend it to readers age 10 and up. I loved how Brian never lost confidence when trying to survive, like when he found out his hunting .22 rifle didn't work. He had to do it the old fashioned way. Never was tired of reading. Could read 1 million times and never get tired of this book. Teaches a valuable lesson to kids. Great book. Recommended to anyone.

I think this book was o.k. I have read better before though. I like this book because it is about the outdoors. I also like this book because it teels ways to survive in the wild. The reason I rated this book 4 because it makes you want to keep reading it. It also has alot of action in it. One of my favorite parts is when Brian killed the moose. I would definitly recamend this book to others.

Almost every other weekend I would go camping. Maybe that is why I like this book so much. The author, Gary Paulsen wrote a book called Brian's winter. It is about a boy named Brian who has to learn how to survive in the wilderness after a plane crash.

When Brian had to make his own weapons to hunt with, I was very impressed. He had to use items that were in the wilderness. Also to help him out, he had a survival kit that had some items were hatchet, knife, litter, string, a book and pencils.

Brian had to hunt for his food to stay alive. He would use his bow and arrow to kill the animals. He had to skin the animals and cook them by himself. To cook them he would have to make a fire using flint. Things that he could not eat like the fur he used as clothing.

Who would have thought that a fourteen year old could survive in the wilderness all by himself. If you would like to know if Brian survives you would have to read the book.

Gary Paulsen is a very talented writer because he knows how to build up suspense. It seems that the character is alive and real so it makes you absorb the knowledge more. His makeshift Thanksgiving made me so hungry I went on a feeding frenzy and raided the refrigerator. If you liked this book or the other Brian books you will like his book Canyons. I 'm so sad that it's finished and I can't read it any more.

Brian's winter is a tale of struggle through hardships and faith that no matter what happens if you have a goal and perservere you will eventually succeed. Brian is a kid who gets stuck in the middle of the wilderness deep in Canada with nothing but the clothes on his back and a hatchet that his mom gave him before he left on the fateful plane ride. This book tells about him trying to adapt and survive in the harsh winter climate. My favorite part of the book was when Brian tried to take down a huge moose. The one thing that I did not like was when he finally got rescued at the end. I thought that it was too abrupt, he heard a gunshot and then after finding the source was saved by a trapping family living a few miles away. I really liked how the author would go in depth to give you all the details so that you had a vivid picture in your mind. Overall I would rate this book a four out of five and I would encourage anyone to read it.

In an alternative ending to Gary Paulsen�s Hatchet, we find that Brian is still in the middle of the northern woods, with summer nearly over. The first signs of the approaching winter, a different something in the air, eludes Brian until he finds that he is ill-prepared for the coming changes. However, true to his character, Brian figures out how to sustain himself during the winter months. He makes warmer clothing and boots from animal skins, he winterizes his shelter and learns how to keep the fire inside, and he makes stronger weapons, enabling him to hunt bigger animals. I appreciate the fact that although Brian kills animals so that he can live, hunting never becomes a sport to him. For example, when Brian kills the deer, he silently thanks the animal for what it provides him.
I think the only thing I didn�t really like in Brian�s Winter was the ending. The entire story was so full of challenge, suspense, and danger, and the ending just left me feeling flat.
I give Brian�s Winter 4 out of 5 stars!

My revew for this story is that I think that it is a very exciting book it was full of chanlengles and is full of adventure. I liked how he prepared for the winter and all the challenges he has to over come to make the objects that he has to to survive the harsh winter. So read this book to find out what happens to Brain and see if he makes it or how he maneges to survive.

I like this book because is I like an adventure book! In this book Brian is stranded in the Canadian wilderness! He has to know haw to survive. He has to think of the needs like shelter, food, fire and other things!!!! I can't tell you too much because if i tell you anymore that might give away the ending!

READ THIS BOOK IT IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love this series and cannot wait to finish book 4. I am right there with Brian trying to figure out what can be used for his needs, etc. I research what I do not know so I can learn along with him. The only thing I do not like is there are not more books in this series.

Now I want to go camping....

All students enjoyed this book during the oral reading time in my 4th/5th grade class. The gritty realism was especially gripping for the boys, most of whom dislike reading. I would imagine that some parents in more sheltered communities might dislike the constant descriptions of hunting, weapons manufacture and skinning game. My kids had no problems, though. Some student reviews: Cris - "It has challenging words for kids and teachers." Alex - "It is a good book and very exciting." Anna - "It tells how to survive in the woods and how to hunt animals." My favorite review is from Tyson - "You can learn to survive in the wild if you had a plane crash."

Brians winter gives me chills of excitement while I read it.
I think this one is better than the river and really close to being better than Hatchet. I love how Gary Paulsen makes Brian think. The way he notices things even in a book it is cool. I recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure and thrills or outdoors. If you have read the other books u must read this!

A bone needle, rabbit lacing, knife, hatchet,clothes these are tools Brian needs to survive his deadliest chalenge yet WINTER! At first Brian is haveing a good time, but then things start to get a little chilli. One morning Brian wakes up to here the sweet sound of silence.Brian automattically knows something is wrong for he dose not here the sweet sound of the morning birds. When he goes to relive his bodily fluids hr realizes something is terribly wrong. It has been colder and have been having constant rain storms. Then it hits him like a ton of bricks winter is comeing.He is not prepard for what is ahead of him. I really found this book interesting. I would recomend this book to any one who likes adventure and has read the book hatchet and liked it.It was very adventurous and enjoyable. I think it would be good for young kids to teach them about the wild and what it is like in the canadian wilderness.

Brian's Winter was the best book I have read in a long time. I thought it was really cool and a had lot of action and keeps you wondering about it and whats going to happen. It had me liking the book at the very beginng. I like all of Gary Paulson books and this was my favorite one out of all of them. I would tell others to read it and I would read it 3 more times.

Brian's Winter was the best book I have read in a long time. I thought it was really cool and a had lot of action and keeps you wondering about it and whats going to happen. It had me liking the book at the very beginng. I like all of Gary Paulson books and this was my favorite one out of all of them. I would tell others to read it and I would read it 3 more times.

this was a great book and a great end to the series. I'm not much for reading a lot and unless the book is remotely interesting and this one is worth it. I read the first one hatchet back in middle school and I loved it and I recently read the other two books in the series and they were all great. I love survival books and I hope to find another great series like this one

This book is about a boy named Brian. Heis 13 years old. He is stuck in the woods. This is the second story of hatchet.It is an adventure story. Brian has to get out of the woods alive to see his family. It will keep you wanting to know if he will live or die or if he is ever going to see his family again. Or will he get eaten by bears or die of the cold?

Brian's Winter is a book leading off of Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, if rescued in the summer but had to survive the winter. Brian's was stranded in a plane crash. He has to learn how to survive in the harsh conditions during the winter season. A part in the book that I found neat was when he lives of a deer carcass for a couple months. Then he takes the deer fat and boils it and makes a stew and eats it just before he goes to sleep. He makes friends with a skunk and gets attacked by a bear. This book will take you on a good wholesome adventure. This book is a really good book because it goes in depth of how he builds a shelter, cooks food, makes clothes, and survive the winter season.

The book Brian's winter, written by Gary Paulson, shows much excitement throughout the whole novel. It will keep the reader interested and begging for the next page, while changing the way you look at your everyday life. Brian's Winter is about a young teen that was going to visit his uncle in Alaska. On the trip there the pilot blacks out and crash lands into a lake, killing the pilot, but letting Brian escape with little injury, but with little supplies.

The book describes his will to survive lost in the deep Alaskan woods, with only his wits on his side. While reading this book, it gets the audience pulled in, and makes the reader believe that there one with Brian trying to survive the long winter. This book is great for young adult readers trying to escape form there ordinary life, for one filled with adventure, and challenging decisions.

HI,my name is Dale Whaley.I'm from cadillac Middle School.I'm writing to you about your awesome books Hatchet and Brians Winter. I think that both books were great! I'm thinking about reading the sequel to Brians Winter. I think that the way you had Brian survive is great. How did you come up with that? If you ever need any help I have some ideas.

Have you ever thought you were lost or have been lost? Well, Brian Robeson's plane crash landed in the Canadian Wilderness. To survive he must rely on his intelligence, his instincts, and one tool: a hatchet. He must do all of this facing the Canadian fall and winter. The genre of this story is a realistic fiction. There is nothing in this story that cannot happen.

I thought this was a great book because just like all of Gary Paulsen's other book this one is on survival. It was one of those books where you just cannot put it down. The style of writing in this story is what really sets it off from other books in this genre. Gary Paulsen describes everything that Brian does as if he was right there next to him. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read a suspenseful story, which they can't put down.

Have you ever thought you were lost or have been lost? Well, Brian Robeson's plane crash landed in the Canadian Wilderness. To survive he must rely on his intelligence, his instincts, and one tool: a hatchet. He must do all of this facing the Canadian fall and winter. The genre of this story is a realistic fiction. There is nothing in this story that cannot happen.

I thought this was a great book because just like all of Gary Paulsen's other book this one is on survival. It was one of those books where you just cannot put it down. The style of writing in this story is what really sets it off from other books in this genre. Gary Paulsen describes everything that Brian does as if he was right there next to him. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read a suspenseful story, which they can't put down.

This is somthing every young man should know about . We have become too dependent on someone else to provide what we need to live. The raw facts are not pretty wben faced in time of need and are very basic. Some thing has to die for you to live.

Brian's Winter
This book is about if Brian was not rescued in the summer and did get the survival kit from the plane and didn't trigger the radio signal. Will Brian last through the winter or will he die?
This a very exiting book full of suprises. It's very amazing! i cound'nt stop reading it you should read it you will love it!

This is a good book. Brian crash-landed in a forest.Brian tries to survive in this life and death challenge. He has a shotgun, knife, two bows, and a hatchet.
This would be for people who like adveturis and survival books. I liked it because he must survive in the wilderness. It is tough. He finds a pet skunk and names it Betty.

Gary Paulsan's Brian's Winter is an excellent book. I never put it down. It is about a thiteen-year old boy whos plane crashes in the a cold forest. In the forest he learns a lot from the animals. He has lots of journeys, hunting, fishing, building a shelter, and lots of other things. My favorite part was when Brian hunted down a moose.

Brian's Winter is about a 13-year-old boy named Brian. He was on a plane when it crashed. The pilot died, and Brian managed to survive. Soon he found himself abandoned in the Canadian wilderness. He realized that he's going to have to build a shelter and start hunting in order to survive. The winter comes with its freezing temperatures and furry snow, but Brian is ready for the cold days and nights as never before.
I liked the book, because it includes a lot of tips of survival, and because it describes such an adventurous event. The only thing that didn't satisfy me in this book was the ending, which by the way you'll have to read the book to find out.
I felt interested in the chapters ahead through out the novel, that's why I would rate this book an 8/10.

This book was pretty good. The thing that spoiled it though was that I read "The River" before I read this book and it really didn't make sense at the beginning. I understand it now. Have you read the book "Hatchet"? Have you ever wondered what would've happened to Brian if he didn't get rescued? Well, if you are interested, "Brian's Winter" is the book for you. The worst thing in this book is Brian has to fight his worst enemy, winter! Brian has to be able to do a lot of things just to keep him alive. He struggles a lot and is put to the test. The adventure is on!

"Brians Winter" is an awesome read for anyone who is even slightly interested in the outdoors. I could not put this book down. The way that Brian worked throught the Canadian winter made me want to grab my camping gear and just spend a few weeks being self-reliant in the woods. I stayed up hours later than usual because I could not stop reading/thinking about this great story. I would definitley recommend this book to everyone!

I really enjoyed the book Brian's Winter. I liked the book so much because it was so realistic and how Brian had to make his own weapons and tools. Also how he made his shelter is what amazed me because I wouldn't have known how to make any of the things that Brian made.There wasn't one thing I didn't like about this book.

I think that Brian's Winter is very good. He is stuck in the Canadian Wilderness. Brian only have a vest that he made out of rabbit hair,it help's him get warm in the cold. I like the book because it is very funny and interesting.It ended very good because it tells what he does instead of just ending it in a odd way. That is why I like this book.

I've read Hatchet, Brian's Winter(now), and the River. All fantastic books that present an interesting story about how Brian learns to survive in the wilderness, and how it becomes a part of his identity.

The author of my book is Gary Paulsen.
The sequel to this book is the Hatchet.
This story is set in the Candian wilderness.
Brian Robeson a little boy was going to his dads in the Canadian oil field riding in a plane. It ran out of gas and crashed.If you want to know the rest of the book "Read It.

Few have experienced true struggle through the snow, through hunger, and through survival. In Brian's Winter, true struggle is revealed. Brian is a thirteen year-old kid, when his plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness he has to survive in the woods by himself. Brian must rely on his survival skills to face his deadliest enemy, winter.
Brian learns to survive in the wilderness. He survives by learning from his surroundings. He uses tools from the plane to build a tent to protect himself, and to make a fire to keep warm. After a spring in his gun broke, he makes weapons out of what he can find. He hunts birds and rabbits, until winter comes and he has to hunt bigger animals to stalk up on food for the winter. He is very resourceful for using branches to make spears, bow, arrows, and snowshoes.
This book was a best seller but I didn't like it. The plot in this book was to simple. After a while nothing new happened. It is was just a survival story on how Brian has to learned how to survive in the wilderness. I think it would have been better if more thinks happened. It also would have been better if it had more characters. In the wilderness all Brian did was learn how to hunt. If you like books about survival, you would like this book.

This book is the sequel to Hatchet. Back in the woods with Brian. Now he must prepare for his worst nightmare, WINTER IS COMING!!! He doesn't know what to do. So he starts to catch rabbits and make vests, coats, boots to keep warm. He makes a better shelter to survive the blizzardous winter, etc. Buy the sequel to the hit, HATCHET!

The book that I am going to pick is Brians Winter.I picked Brians Winter because it has lots of awesome details and more.Another reason why I picked this book is because of one of the best author and illustrator ever Gary Pualsen.You should realy read one of these books by this guy.And those were some reason why I picked the book called Brians Winter.

In Brian winter by Gary Paulsen there where many ineresting points. Some of them include when Brian home was set on fire. It's was intersting because he Jumped out of the window and saved his self from a bear too. I Will tell peopel about this story. because it was fun and adventureous.

im a country boy down in mid-mississippi and i love the woods.soon as i read Hatchet(the first book i read by Mr.Gary Paulsen)i was hooked.i would recommend it for outdoorsy folks.IT IS AN AWESOME BOOK!!!!!

I loved the book. This book was about a young man who has to survive in the winter all by himself. It is a very exhilarating book. You never know what is going to happen next. The best part of the book is when Brian has to deal with his friend the skunk. Eureka Reader, 8th grade

I loved the book Brian's Winter, I will probably read it again! The author is a wonderful authur and I love reading his books! Brian's Winter was about Brian if he wouldn't of gotten rescued and I really enjoyed it, Gary Paulsen made it so I wanted to keep reading and never stop!:)

Though Gary Paulsen is capable of amazing stories,I feel that Brian's Winter lacked the exciting events that were so plentiful in Hatchet. I understand that in Brian's Winter, Brian was supposed to face "a peril worse than summer", but that speculation was not my opinion.

This Book is the best book ever it has alot of action, and suspense. I really enjoied this book because I really like "outdoors books" and this is a perfect example of an "outdoors book." I really recomend this book to anyone who is looking for a good book

I liked this book. The book i read was brians winter.The reason i liked this book because there was a lot of out door nature, and there was a lot of hunting.
I liked this book also because it had to do with survival, and everyday life in the great outdoors.
CODY

What if Brian didnt get rescued? What if he had to survive through the frigit winter? Well, many people asked this question.... Gary Paulsen did it again, and wrote another amazing novel. He answered this question with the book Brians Winter. The book Brians winter is about Brian(main character)surviving the cold winter, in the canadian woods. This book is so descriptive and interesting. It has lots of suspense also. You should read this book if you like adventure stories. I gaurantee you will like it.

I liked this book. The book i read was brians winter.The reason i liked this book because there was a lot of out door nature, and there was a lot of hunting.
I liked this book also because it had to do with survival, and everyday life in the great outdoors.
CODY

I think Brians Winter is a good book because it talks about surviving in the wilderness and to never give up just because you didn't get what you wanted or because something bad happened.I would recommend this book to anyone who likes survival or adventure stories.

I think Brians Winter is a good book because it talks about surviving in the wilderness and to never give up just because you didn't get what you wanted or because something bad happened.I would recommend this book to anyone who likes survival or adventure stories.

I like Brian's Winter a lot it is a great book. My favorite part in Brian's Winter is when he finds the moose and kills it with his killing lance. I dont think this book could have been written any better. Brain's Winter is one of my favorite bookes.

I like Brian's Winter a lot it is a great book. My favorite part in Brian's Winter is when he finds the moose and kills it with his killing lance. I dont think this book could have been written any better. Brain's Winter is one of my favorite bookes.

Brian, a 13 - year - old boy, is stranded in the middle of the Canadian Wilderness. Just to start off this book is kind of sequel to the book Hatchet but it is more of a alternate ending. Brian must find ways to survive - how to get food, how to stay warm, and how to make his life easier there. What I thought made this book good is that there is really only one character until the end of the book. I liked it like this, instead of having multiple characters that you have to keep track of. Now you just have one character that is developed throughout the story. So to wrap up this book if you want an easy, interesting, reading then this is probably a good book for you to read.

I think Brian's Winter is a five star book because it was very interesting. Brian makes his own snow shoes! He kills a moose with a lance! Also, Brian makes a bow and arrow. See, Brian's Winter is an awesome book. It kept me reading!

Back to the forest... again...

I liked this book, although it was not as good as it's prequel Hatchet. It was not as fast paced. It got a little repetitive after a while though. I didn't enjoy this book as much as others that I've read. It didn't have as much content as hatchet.

I gave this book four stars because it's a good book for kids my age.It's about a boy named Brian and when he was in the forest for a winter and he struggles. But I don't want to tell you about the whole story so I think you should read this book, Brian's Winter.

Brian's Winter is about a boy named brian who is stranded in the Canadian wilderness during the winter. Brian had to try and survive until someone found him or he could find his way out. I liked this book because it had action in it. I didn't like this book because it didn't give enough action. I would recommend this book if you are the kind of person who likes action and books on surviving. This book is good for kids in the sixth maybe even the fifth because they can experience a survival book and what it is like to be lost in the wilderness. I gave this book a 4 out of 5 stars.

This is a sequel to the award-winning novels, Hatchet and The River. This is what would have happened if the plane wouldn't have crashed. This is an excellent novel. Gary Paulsen is a great author, and this book is one of his best!

This book was well written and fun to read. However, I think that some of the books that Paulsen wrote are too short: I read this one in a few hours. It makes survival stories more interesting if there is more detail, and a longer plot.

I have read your books Hatchet and Brian's Winter I have yet to read your book called The River, which I hope to read very soon. I found your books interesting and hard to put down. If you are going to write a sequel please let me know.

Brian's Winter is a very good book. It is about a boy who got in a plane crash and had to survive in the wilderness. It had a lot of action and suspense. It had a surprising end to it. If you want to know what happens read it!

I read the book Brian's Winter and this book is very boring. When the bear came to his shelter it got a little excited. I think it was boring because the author didn't give any good facts. I would rather read a book for more interest, than read a very boring, dumb book. I wish I could throw the book out in the garbage.

I think brians winter is a good book because it may be a good survivle guide.If you get stuck in the woods with no food and no shelter.So this is why i suggest to get this book.If you need help or to know how to make stuff if you get stuck in the woods.So go and try to find this book in a good book store.

Brian's Winter was boring because nothing exciting happened. Not enough of it is truly exciting. Hatchet is 5 stars compared to Brian's Winter. There is truly nothing interesting in Brian's Winter no tragedies like the tornadoe in Hatchet. I like Gary Paulsen's books but this one is one of his worst.

A month ago I finished Hatchet, really good adventure fiction book written by Garry Paulsen. I think that Hatchet is for 9 year olds and up.
Hatchet is full of adventure and surprises. It's full of adventure because when Brian (the main character) was on his way to see his dad the pilot has a heart attack and dies but Brian does not crash right away because the pilot taught him how to fly the plane before he died. Brian was able to fly the plane until it ran out of gas. When he did crash he survived and found a cave to live in and he also had to hunt for food.
My favorite part is when he uses the hatchet to cut the plane open and get the survival pack out. I liked that part because it kept me on the edge of my seat wondering what will happen next. It was so exciting it kept me up late reading.
I give this book a 5 out of 5 because it a very fun and exciting. It is a good book!

This is a great book.It was impressive how Brian was able to make his own clothes out of the moose and rabbit skin.Very interesting how he made his lance and the arrows.I also liked the description of how the snow looked.Great book.

Picture your self flying on a air plane and all of sudden your pilot had a heartattack and you dont know how to fly a plane and you crash. Well that is what Brian went through. When his planned crashed in the woods he had nothing to survive with only his hatchet and the suvial pack hed found in the book hatchet. To find out if he gets out of the cannadian woods alive or not read the book. I would not read this book if you have not read the first book hatchet.

Picture your self flying on a air plane and all of sudden your pilot had a heartattack and you dont know how to fly a plane and you crash. Well that is what Brian went through. When his planned crashed in the woods he had nothing to survive with only his hatchet and the suvial pack hed found in the book hatchet. To find out if he gets out of the cannadian woods alive or not read the book. I would not read this book if you have not read the first book hatchet.

Dear Gary Paulsen, I love your books. I especially like HATCHET, THE RIVER, and BRIAN'S WINTER. I think BRIAN'S WINTER needs a better ending though. Otherwise I am your biggest fan. I also love where you live.

Brian's winter. By Gary paullsen.Brian a boy who is stuck in a forest after his plane crached.Witch he finds a srivel pack it witch has gun.And he likes to hunt witch is good.I thik has some wolf frinds.

if you want to read Brians Winter you have to read Hatchet in hatchet brian has a plane crash in the middle of Canada and has to survive and he gets rescued.Brians Winter is about if he didn't get rescued.

It was amazing and exciting. I loved it. My favorite part was when he tried to make the bear leave the camp, but the bear threw him around. Luckily he was not injured too bad. That was my favorite part of the book.

This is the stupidest book I have ever read. Who in what name would try to eat rabbits instead of trying to get out of the wilderness. Give me a break! Brian was so stupid! I will never read this book again even for a million dollors. It was extremely boring boring. When I got this book I new it was a piece of garbage.

Before I start I need to tell you that you can't read this book with out reading the book Hatchet. This book is mainly about how he had to crash land in the wilderness in the first book and, in this book is mainly about if he didn't get rescued and was left in the wilderness through the winter. I would recomend this book to any one who had a interest in Hatchet. I do think this book was almost as good as hatchet.

I personally thought that Gary Paulsen wrote too much detail in this book. For example, there were two pages of how Brian skinned the deer. Also, there was an ubrupt ending. He heard a shot, found where it came from, and was saved. One page. I would recomend a lot of his other books. Those were phenominal, but this one, I would stay away from.

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Brian's winter is about a boy that got stuck in Canada because his airplane when down. He has to survive there and eat food to live. He makes a Bowen arrow out of rocks and rabbit skins. He made a home out of wood, mud, and twigs. He killed a moose, deer, and rabbit. I thing this book is very good it had a lot of thing that I was entertained in. the book is good for every one that like the woods and out side. I will give this book a 10 because it was interested to throw the book.