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Father Water, Mother Woods | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gary Paulsen, Ruth Wright Paulsen
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 81495
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0440219841
Dewey Decimal Number: 799.09776
EAN: 9780440219842
ASIN: 0440219841
Publication Date: March 1, 1996
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Product Description
Survival in the wilderness--Gary Paulsen writes about it so powerfully in his novels Hatchet and The River because he's lived it.These essays recount his adventures alone and with friends, along the rivers and in the woods of northern Minnesota. There, fishing and hunting are serious business, requiring skill, secrets, and inspiration. Luck, too--not every big one gets away.
This book takes readers through the seasons, from the incredible taste of a spring fish fresh from the smokehouse, to the first sight of the first deer, to the peace of the winter days spent dreaming by the stove in a fishhouse on the ice. In Paulsen's north country, every expedition is a major one, and often hilarious.
Once again Gary Paulsen demonstrates why he is one of America's most beloved writers, for he shows us fishing and hunting as pleasure, as art, as companionship, and as sources of life's deepest lessons.
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 not for the autobiography but the naturalism approach August 12, 2008
The book is like " Hatchet" very well written,
but it lacks any feeling for the nature the author describes
the boys raping. The community he lived in built a dam
for electric power that blocked the upstream run of the fish.
This author thought it was a great thing
as it allowed him and his friends to catch more fish.
Like I said the writing is candid and true to life, but it is
a life of a child who never learned an real respect in the
native American ( Indian) tradition for nature.
Survival at the price of destruction of species
may in the long run be the worst kind of survival?
 Bringing The Outside In January 22, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book truly brings nature to your fingertips. As a reader, I felt as if I was out in the wild, experiencing everything of which Paulsen wrote. With the descriptive settings and easy-to-relate-to tales, Paulsen makes the reader feel as if they have entered the woods along with the characters in the story. The essays on fishing and hunting in the northern woods are definitely his best work yet! This book is easy to follow, yet has very deep and interesting accounts.
I recommend this illustration to anyone who enjoys the great outdoors. If you want to learn about cold, winter morning fishing excursions, or hot, summer days in the woods, this is the perfect book to help fulfill your curiosity. Father Water Mother Woods is worth your time of reading and is definitely a classic.
Review of Father Water, Mother Woods January 20, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Paulsen writes about seasons in his hometown being determined by types of fish caught down by the dam, under the Ninth street bridge, or in frozen lakes, and not by dates on calendars. When fishing ends, hunting is the obsession for Paulsen and friends he calls "orphans of the woods." He explains, "When we were in the woods or fishing the rivers and lakes our lives didn't hurt."This book is a nature lover's choice. Paulsen writes of growing up in a small Minnesota town and he intertwines this town's life with stories of adventurous boys. Two of my favorite essays are "Running the River" and "Bow Hunting." The first is a hilarious tale of an overplanned camping trip gone wrong when the boat, full of supplies and boys, sinks, forcing the boys to walk back to town. "Bow Hunting" is a coming of age essay in which a boy, after killing his first doe, poignantly describes his realization that while his life will continue, hers will not.
Excellent Book September 21, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book. The book is written in such detail that it is easy to imagine yourself being there. This is a great book for those of any age. It will bring back some good memories of your childhood.
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! April 2, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is one of the best books I have read about outdoors. The stories were exellently written and engulfed me in the happnings. I felt as if I could smell the crisp morning air on the first day of hunting season.I would give this book 50 stars but there is only five on the sheet.
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