Inprint Cool Brains! presents Gary Paulsen

Start: Apr 18 2010 3:00 pm

End: Apr 18 2010 4:30 pm

Gary Paulsen

Cool Brains! Inprint Readings for Young People

Meet the author!

Sunday
April 18, 2010
3 pm

Free

Pershing Middle School Auditorium
3838 Blue Bonnet at Stella Link

Please note, Gary Paulsen will personalize an unlimited number of copies of Woods Runner and Lawn Boy Returns purchased at the event. Gary will sign (not personalize) one backlist title brought from home.

Enjoy an afternoon with bestselling author Gary Paulsen. Paulsen will make a lively presentation about his work, followed by a book sale and signing, where audience members can meet the author.

The New York Times hails Paulsen as “one of the best-loved writers alive.” Paulsen has more than 26 million books in print and is the author of more than 175 books and 200 articles and short stories for children and adults. A master storyteller, Paulsen is a three time Newbery Honor Book winner for the novels Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room. School Library Journal included his book Hatchet in their list of “One Hundred Books That Shaped the Century.” Paulsen’s other major works include Mudshark, which is on the Bluebonnet Master List this year, and the fan favorite Lawn Boy. His books frequently appear on the best books lists of the American Library Association.

Paulsen’s latest novel, Woods Runner, is a vivid and harrowing story about a teenage boy in the midst of the Revolutionary War. Paulsen says, “I wrote Woods Runner because I wanted the Revolutionary War to be seen in its reality. I wanted to dispute the mythic, clean, even antiseptic qualities in many histories, because war is never, not ever, clean.” In late March he will publish Lawn Boy Returns, the sequel to Lawn Boy.

Paulsen and his wife, Ruth Wright Paulsen, an artist who has illustrated several of his books, divide their time between homes in Alaska and New Mexico and a boat in the Pacific.