Woodsong

Gary Paulson, has learned a lot from his dogs and shares his wisdom to us. At he great race, he learns from wxperience and manages to finsh the race.

I loved this book as a child and read my copy nearly to death!

Make sure not to see this as a book only for little boys. Girls can enjoy it just as much, and to say otherwise means you are a jerk.

This book is about the wood song. it all starts like this brian is still in the forest and he hunts for a really big bear that killed his father but it really was not the bear it was the tribe. so brian thinks that the bear did it and now he is going to go kill the bear.also as he is going to kill

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the bear he does not notice but there is someone chaseing him.so as he is getting the bear he kills the bear but then the guy is still chaseing after him.after he gets back to his camp he notices that his fire is out so he goes to look around who took out his fire but he never found out. the person who took out the fire was the guy who was chasing him.at the end he kills the guy and is at peace in the woods again. why i like this book is cause it sounds even beter than all his books in the hatachet serices. i like it how gary paulsen puts his mind in the book like he is there right now that is cool. i like how his books start in a good way in the begining. also his books are good in adeventuring cause it makes you want to watch a movie aboout his books. alos i wish he could just put one of his books into a film now that would be cool.also his booksare rather good but sometimes bad and sad at the same time cause every time some one dies. clearly you can see what the book is about and why i like it.

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This book is about the author Gary Paulsen when he lived in poverty. He raised a dog sled team and he has adventures with them in the wild.

This book was a very good book. I liked how the second part of the book was just on the Iditarod race in Alaska. The only thing that I didn't like in this book was that some of the parts in the book were very gruesome.

Very slow i did not like it. I did not find it interesting because i didn't really know what the ididarod is.

Woodsong is a book about Gary. the author, and what he goes through in his first time ever running the Iditorod Race in Alaska. I thought the book was great.

Good story. Cool characters (dogs) amazing detain and well written.

it is fine but getting into it gets boring

good book but its not the best book i ever read but still good

I did not like this book. It was very boring and not fun to read.

A very heartwarming book about a man who lives his dogs. The plot was hard to follow. It was more of a guys book but i still enjoy stories about dogs.

This is one of the best books I know of. I definitely recommend this!!

Fun nature book:) yet wierd:/

For my review of the book “woodsong” by Gary Paulsen I would like to start by saying that it was built into two parts. The first part of the story is pretty much an autobiography that is a well descriptive story about Gary Paulsen’s life as a dogsled rider. He spends the whole part talking

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about many of his dogs and his daily life. He adds a huge amount of his book talking about the many life lessons that he learns as he encounters things. I would say that I enjoyed almost every part of this half of the story. It had really funny stories and cool adventurous stories that made you feel almost like the author at times. I did have a slight problem with the book though. When I read books I understand that descriptive sentences are needed but there can be so many that it takes me awhile before finally going on to the next part of each story. I would say that this book is very interesting and that if you enjoy reading about people’s life and dog stories then you will get hooked to the first half of the story.

The second part is Gary’s retelling of the time he joined a major dogsled race around Alaska’s wilderness. He starts it off with how the first day was a fiasco and that he tells how they run out of the chute into the road of a small village. As each day progresses he tells of how he gets sick of the food the people give him and how he starts getting sick. He later recalls saying that a mysterious man kept showing up and helping his dogsled whenever it broke down or got the dogs tangled up. This part of the book is 17 days long and almost every chapter is one day worth. The sled race ends with him saying that everything he has gone through was worth it and that he will probably do it again. It is hard to tell if he does though. I loved this part because it included descriptions of the condition of the race and the reactions of everything he had done. I think that I can say that this part gave me no disappointment and I absolutely suggest to try reading this book.

In all I would give this book a rating of one of my personal favorites and should be a good read for people who love adventure, and life stories of people and their home. Every part of this book will paint a picture in your mind about a white tundra and the coldness of the man’s travel.

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For young-adults or the adventurous of heart. Follow Gary Paulsen's dog sledding adventures around Alaska and through the Iditarod as he explains his dogs' personalities. One of my favorite books as a child and still to this day. Pure, adventurous, engaging, and authentic!

This would be useful in teaching children autobiographies and narratives since it has both in it.

The author has written an autobiographical look at sled dogs, sledding, and the wilderness he personally discovers while training for the Iditarod. The first half of the book is about the dogs, and his interaction with the wilds while training, the second half is a journal of his attempt to win

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that famous race. Full of the usual humor and pathos we expect, it's a good read for a fan of Gary Paulsen, or any nature lover for that matter. Recommended.

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Paulsen writes movingly of his learning to run dogs and training pups for the harness. There are eye-rolling episodes where his ignorance in managing dog sledding had me cringing. Equally, there were laugh-out-loud anecdotes (I especially enjoyed the bantam hen dominating the Paulsen family

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backyard). The evocative passages of winter beauty and wilderness camping added to my appreciation of Paulsen's writing.

I'm not sure who the target audience really is for this book. It's a memoir of the author's early days running dogs, which could certainly appeal to outdoors-oriented readers of any age. But there are also passages of the harsh realities of wolves and deer populations and a squirrel-chipmunk interaction both of which are very graphic. Of course, the younger end of the YA readership might just gloss over these descriptions.

The final chapter of running his first Iditarod was captivating, even though I'd previously read Winterdance. I always come away from reading stories of this famous Alaskan race with amazement at what people will do as an extreme sport and wondering how on earth more dogs and drivers don't die trying to complete this run. In the Woodsong version, the tale of Pualsen's first Iditarod is shortened but still paints an astounding chronicle of the race.

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Upsetting, graphic description in the first chapter of wolves taking down a deer. As he explains, it is not a clean kill.

It is classified as juvenile literature but I would not want children reading this. Which is too bad.