Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood Format:Hardcover for this is no mere

for this is no mere fancy

Nandy Smith

A lyrical and unifying picture book that “will inspire young readers” and “magnificently showcases the immigrant experience” (Kirkus Reviews

and challenges Trike to a race

Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood Format:Hardcover for this is no mereA middle grade memoir from a literary legend, giving readers a new perspective on the origin of Paulsen's famed survival stories. His name is synonymous with high stakes wilderness survival stories. Now, Gary Paulsen portrays a series of life altering moments in his turbulent childhood as his own original survival story. If not for his summer escape from a shockingly neglectful Chicago upbringing to a North Woods homestead at age five, there never