Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood by Gary PaulsonA middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving readers a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen's famed survival stories. His name is synonymous with high stakes wilderness survival stories. Now, beloved author Gary Paulsen portrays a series of life altering moments from his turbulent childhood as his own original survival story. If not for his summer escape from a shockingly neglectful Chicago upbringing to a North Woods

In 1915 he returned to the United States and settled on a farm in New Hampshire

a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book

" -- Horn Book Magazine

Once on the planet

And now I feel like I can do anything

by Carl Sandburg

She has also illustrated many books for children

A Story about a Darning-needle

Also included is "The Tallow Candle" -- one of the earliest stories written by Andersen

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