| A | B |
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| Popular wilderness survival book | Hatchet |
| Gary Paulsen's favorite motto | "Read like a wolf eats." |
| A Civil War book on slavery and literacy | Nightjohn |
| Started writing Hatchet here | Hershey Middle School, Hershey, Pennsylvania |
| Annual dogsled race in Alaska that starts in Anchorage and ends in Nome. | The Iditarod |
| Gary Paulsen's opinion of TV | "Television is an abomination—it actually causes a reveral in intelligence |
| Some close calls in Paulsen's life | Falling through the ice, being chased by a moose, being blown off a mountain, a storm at sea |
| Age when he got his first library card | Fourteen |
| Number of books written | Over 200 |
| Number of Newbery Honor Medal books | Three |
| Favorite lead dog | Cookie |
| First dog | Snowball |
| Paulsen's artist wife who illustrates some of his books | Ruth Wright Paulsen |
| Types of books Paulsen writes | Fiction and Nonfiction: Humor, adventure, memoir, picture book, and more |
| Dog that saved Mrs. Paulsen from a bear | Quincy |
| Main character in Hatchet. | Brian Robeson. |
| Number of times Paulsen has run the Iditarod. | twice |
| Where Gary lived from age six to nine | the Philippines |
| What Gary Paulsen says about the librarian who opened the world of reading to him | "Everything I am I owe to that woman." |
| Gary Paulsen's first sled dogs | Storm, Yogi, Obeah, Columbia |
