i remember reading Hatchet in 4th grade and thinking "wow! Brian is so smart and brave he must be so old and wise!"

HE IS 13.
I AM IN HIGH SCHOOL AND KNOW VERY WELL I COULD NEVER

I thought the book was great after reading hatchet I thought the series was over but when I found out there was another book I bought it right away.I really liked this book because its about survival and being stranded and im really interested in those books.it also had alot of details and action.I would recommend this book to people who like action and the hatchet series.

I didn’t know there was sequels! I enjoyed but not as good as hatchet ofc ofc

I love books about winter.

I love books that take place in the north, in areas similar to my own (we hit -30 F just about every winter. Last year we had a week-long cold snap). I watch Joe Robinet videos when I can’t sleep or feel stressed about work. It reminds me there is some kind of escape. Something simpler, though not necessarily easier.

So this book was top notch for me. Like My Side of the Mountain good.

I read Hatchet last year (audiobook) and liked it quite a bit. I never really planned on returning to Paulsen’s work any time soon, but after this I’m ready for more.

Over the past two years I have been trying to read more. Initially it was to cull my collection and put some books behind me that I have been sitting on for years. This year I started reading more books that I know I’ll be coming back to. This is one of those books. This is a great book to read January or February, when it gets dark at 4:30 and we have to kick on the fire place because our boiler can’t keep up with the cold.

Hatchet wasn’t too far back in my memory, so this “what if” book made me all the more grateful when he finally finds what he’s been seeking at the end.

I’m going to get more of Paulsen’s books now. Looks like YA is going to go into February

IF you are into survival novels then this is a book for you! Brian describes to you about the pros and cons of this senerio. Brian Robeson is young teenager surviving mother natures harshs conditions including winter blizzards and bitter coldness. IF you are a person who is sometimes gone from home doing whatever, say you become in a senerio where you might need some survival techniques, this book will tell you how to survive.
Brians Winter is a lead off of the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. A little recap on Hatchet. In the beggining, Brian was in a very small plane over the elusive Canadian hardwoods in the middle of summer. His pilot ended up having a heart attack and died. The plane crashed into the tree's and Brian ended up being trapped with no radio contact to the outside world. He made a small shelter on the outside of a small lake.
Brian is all alone and is waiting for help to arive, he has been living at the crash sight for two months sence the plane crashed. He goes through withdrawls of what his life ust to be and he misses his mom and dad so very much. He can tell that fall is coming soon because the air is stiffer and the lake freezes over at night. The only fire starting tool he has is his hatchet. He ofcourse kills things to eat. He has decided to kill something bigger than rabbits for the fur to make a coat. He makes snowshoes and pants. The pants and coat are made from deer skin. He had a 22 cal long rifle but he is out of ammunition so he made a bow out of vine and basswood.
He boils water from the lake in an old coffee can that he found burried in the muck. Every two weeks he hears wolves and he soon descided that he wanted to see them. He goes out and is doing his business when he looks up, he sees a wolf standing 20 yards infront of him with a piece of a white-tail deer in his mouth. The wolf marks his territory and carrys on. Brian learned in science that animals mark there territory to keep there ground from being over run by intruders. He descides to go pee on the same stump the wolf did. Two weeks later the wolf comes back, smells the intruder, and marks his territory again. Brian quickly runs over there as soon as it was safe and does it again. Brian and the wolf come friends. Brian has nobody to socialize with so he feels that the animals keep him from going crazy.

I really enjoyed this book. This occurred after Brian's miraculous return back to civilization from the book Hatchet. Since he was so skilled out there all by himself, reporters found him and wanted him to do it again. But this time they would bring plenty of food, and other necessities they needed. Brian wasn't sure about it at first. Then he lightened up and decided to do it. He would take a plane with a gentleman who would be taking notes on what he does. On the plane ride, the plane crashed. Brian couldn't believe it. It was happening again! Brian was alive but the pilot was in critical condition. Brian eventually got him out of the plane. He took him to a shelter (a fallen down tree). At the time, it seemed like a substantial environment. Brian's first thought was food but the food was gone because they crashed in the lake and it all was at the bottom. After many nights the pilot was still in a coma. It started to snow. A big concern. After about a month and a half they heard voices. It turned out to be a family that had a cabin up there and spent time there in the winter. They saw them and took them to safety. Both survived. I would recommend this book for people that like adventure and suspense.

This is the best of the series so far. Betty the skunk is the star. 3.5 stars for her.

Being Alone in the middle of nowhere isn’t very fun, but being cold and alone takes it to a whole other level; just ask Brian Robeson.

“Brian’s Winter” is a continuation of Gary Paulsen’s book “Hatchet”. Actually it is a reimagining of what would have happened to Brian Robeson if he wasn’t rescued and had to get through the cold Northern Canada winter alone. Brian almost misses the signs that winter is coming, but when he finally gets it he realizes that he has a lot of work to do. There are many things that he will have to learn to do for himself, but the biggest of these is figuring out how to stay warm and how to find food when the temperatures dip well below 0°. Can he figure out how to do these things before it is too late?

I really loved this book because it went right where my mind went as I read the first book, “Hatchet”. I couldn’t imagine how Brian could survive the winter at the pace he was going. Admittedly I do find it a little farfetched that Brian learns to do all of the things that he has to do so quickly, but it isn’t beyond the realm of possibility. And I appreciate that Paulsen broaches the subject of hunting and taking a life with a little more depth and thought than he did in the first book. I personally think it is okay to hunt for food, especially when it is necessary for survival. But I like the fact that Brian doesn’t find it any easier to do just because he needs the food. The topic of hunting and animal rights is always relevant, to some degree, and I think Paulsen handled it nicely here.

I recommend this book for all but the most squeamish readers, (he does have to clean the animals he kills). It would definitely be a great read for the outdoor enthusiast, and it would make a good fiction connection for some science and language arts classes.

I thought this was a good book because he went in the wilderness and is living off the land and verry little things that people made, he is living by himself. He knows the enviornment and when he hunts he knows where the animals are and how to hunt them. He set up his camp under a rock by a small lake in canada. When he hunts he only kills what he needs and uses the whole thing for tools and food.

In the book it is winter going into spring, he is going down river in a canoo to visit some friends that have a cabin and live alone. On the way he has to go through many nights sleeping in the open by the river. One night he was eating and hears a dog wimpering across the river. He goes over to observe what it was, when he got over there he sees the dog has a wound on its side and the dog is afraid of him. Brian gives him some of his food and stiches up the dogs side and cares for it. When he gets to the camp where his friends are staying. At first noone was there, after a wile he starts to get concerned and looks around where he sees bear tracks. He notices there boat is gone and sees the gun in the cabin has shells laying on the ground and blood on the walls. He starts hunting for the bear. He was fallowing the tracks of the bear when he realizes that he is walking around in the same places the bear is fallowing him so he sits on a tree and waits for the bear to come to him. After a wile he sees the bear and tries to attack it but the bear put up a good fight and Brian puts his knife in the bears side and kills it. He goes back to the camp and looks for his friends, he finds the bodys laying next to a tree dead. He finally goes back to his camp with his dog.

This is a good book for anyone that likes adventure and action. The book teaches you how a young boy lives in the wilderness and survives off little.

"Brian's Winter" by Gary Paulsen picks up where the character Brian left off, had he not been rescued. In his foreward, Paulsen said that he received "as many as 200 letters a day" from readers saying that they felt that Brian's story was not finished, that he was rescued before things got really tough. In order to read this novel, you have to read it with the pretense that when he retrieved the survival pack from the plane, he did not turn on the radio signal. With winter on the horizon, Brian's real struggles were supposed to begin.
Yet this was the major flaw in the plot. All struggles were easily solved with little to no barriers. Brian's experience in the frigid Canadian Winter paled in comparison to what a real 13 year old would have experienced had they had been in Brian's shoes. Paulsen also failed to carry forth many of the themes from the Hatchet, such as "The Secret" and how the death of the Pilot haunted him. Paulsen had tried to give his readers what they wanted, Brian's struggle to survive in the Canadian Winter, but instead, he had given them much of what they wanted less of; easy fixes and luck.
Brian never struggled in the winter, he never went hungry, got severely injured that greatly hindered his survival, and never even so much as got frost bite, despite having little to no clothing. Hatchet was by far the better of the two and Brian's story should have left off there.

Better than The River

I read "Brian's Winter" by Gary Paulsen, I thought the book was good in some ways. It started out in the early stages of fall and worked its way into the winter including all the changes that had to be made just to survive. He had to kill more for food and clothing. Brian spends a great majority of his time in his shelter to stay warm and not freeze to death in the harsh winter.

The main character of this book is Brian. He is a very brave, tough, and intelligent boy who is trying to survive in the northwoods during the winter. Brian finds many struggles on his journey but what he finds hardest to deal with is not being able to see his family. He talked a lot about how much he missed his mom and dad. At the end of the book Brian meets a nice little trapper family that get him home.

The setting of the book takes place in the woods during the winter months in modern times, which plays a major roll in the reading. Brian is used to sleeping inside a building for the winter, having enough food, and not struggling at all. Now Brian is fighting for his life, remembering all that he had learned about the woods. He remembers the life that he used to live back in the city which causes him to undergo some very drastic changes in his lifestyle.

I feel that the author's purpose in writing this book it to try and tell people to get out of their comfort zones, because you never know what can happen to you or someone you love. I feel the author did a great job portraying that.

I would recommend this book to anyone. It is an easy read. No matter your imagination, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat and wanting to know more. I rate the book five out of five stars.