![]() ![]() But to his readers, his greatest debt was to an unnamed librarian who helped Paulsen find refuge in the library, who performed the critical role of offering him something to read, who got him a library card, and suggested what he read next. He claims the greatest positive influence was his grandmother, and he even wrote a trio of fictional accounts of a young boy in the north ( The CookCamp, The Quilt, Alida’s Song) to honor her. Paulsen led a difficult, peripatetic childhood. Do you remember, The White Fox Chronicles (2000), a young boy navigating a dystopian future? Woods Runner (2010), a young boy in frontier America traverses the delicate allegiances on the eve of the American Revolution? How about Nightjohn (1993), the searing account of a scarred and escaped slave, who lives to save another young slave from the same fate? ![]() All he did to dispel this idea of being pigeonholed was write a hundred other books, an impossible range of books: how to sports guides, humorous road trip novels, western romps, and even a stab at science fiction. ![]()
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