Description
Title: Hatchet: 30th Anniversary Edition
Author: PAULSEN GARY
Illustrator: WILLIS DREW (ILL)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 03/10/2017
Imprint: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Price: $22.00
Publishing status: Active
Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Paulsen’s Newbery Honor-winning survival novel with a pocket-sized edition that includes a new Introduction and commentary by the author, pen-and-ink illustrations by Willis, and a water resistant cover.
Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson, haunted by his secret knowledge of his mother’s infidelity, is traveling by single-engine plane to visit his father for the first time since the divorce. When the plane crashes, killing the pilot, the sole survivor is Brian. He is alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present. At first consumed by despair and self-pity, Brian slowly learns survival skills — how to make a shelter for himself, how to hunt and fish and forage for food, how to make a fire — and even finds the courage to start over from scratch when a tornado ravages his campsite. When Brian is finally rescued after 54 days in the wild, he emerges from his ordeal with new patience and self-reliance, and a greater understanding of himself and his parents. A 1988 Newbery Honor Book.
ISBN: 9781481486293