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Brian's Winter is a novel by award winning writer Gary Paulsen. As a result of many letters sent to Mr. Paulsen by fans of Hatchet and The River, Mr. Paulsen writes this novel in which he pretends Brian is not rescued after fifty-four days lost in the woods with only a hatchet. Instead, Brian must face the winter alone. Brian discovers flint and makes arrowheads so he can kill larger prey, uses rabbit and moose skin to make himself warm clothing and even finds a way to make snowshoes so he will not sink in the snow while hunting. Brian's Winter is a "what if" scenario that takes a beloved character back to the woods and shows readers why he survives the woods in the first place.

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—Mom
—Brian
—Dad

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Fall—chapter 1/7
Winter—chapter 8/17

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Brain has finished with all the food in the survival pack. He want food and is lazy. Then he goes out to hunt and his rifle breakes. He is now shooting animals with his bow and arrows. The meat tastes like wood and killes the pray slowly. He wants to go home and can smell the chicken at his house with his mom. He misses home and wants to go back

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Brian's wakes up to a rear of a bear in his face. The bear smelled the food and came to the shelter of Brian's. He needs the food and kicks the bear in the rear. Brian is scared but needs food. Surviaval is all about food. The bear picks up Brian and throws him across the room the bear leaves without looking back. This is were Brian is lazy and can't get up. His body aches from the attack. He's full but not full enouh. He now's winter is coming and has to survive his worst enemy.

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Brian decided that he had to get a new weapon. The night was  getting cold because summer was over. Brian made his shelter better and fixed  the damage the bear had done on the shelter. He also made an insulted door.  Brian had a thousands of problems. Brian needed a stronger bow, and it had to be  stiff so it would drive the arrows deeper. Brian had problems with the arrows.  They were too thin and soft. Brian found out that he needed to make arrow heads.  Brian awoke famished, and he only had four fish left.

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Rain came on the third day of drying the heavy bows. When they  had dried enough, he brought them in the shelter. It kept on raining. Brian  almost went crazy. All Brian could do at the end of the first day of rain was  find dry wood for the fire. On the fourth day of rain, Brian found a four-pound  Northern Pike on his fish line. Brian had made a weather tight shelter by watching the beavers make a watertight dam. Brian was thinking of the fire rock  that was used to make the flint arrowhead.

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Brian made a vest with the rabbit fur. Then he saw the wolves kill a doe, and he got scared. He got the meat from the doe that the wolves killed. Then he skinned the doe, and laid it out. In the late afternoon, he looked at the meat and said
it looked like jerky. He had so much meat, he knew it would last a long time. He also had a skunk as a pet.

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In the morning, Brian looked around for the skunk. Then he walked outside to check if the skunk was still there. He thought that the skunk had moved on. Winter was coming, and Brian knew one thing, it was going to get cold! Then Brian finished the arrows, but he also had to make string for the bow and let the bow dry.

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A bear came into his camp because it smelled the meat of the doe.  The bear hit Brian, just when he thought it was all over, but the skunk saved him by spraying the bear in the eye. Brian gave his skunk a big piece of the meat for a reward.  Since the skunk saved him, Brian started treating her as a pet, and named her Betty. He also decided to start giving her more
food.

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Brian was awake in the morning, and he thought he had slept enough. Brain got up, and realized it was very quiet outside. Brian tried to open the door to look outside, but the door was stuck. He got the door open, and went outside to get water. After Brian got the water, he put it on the fire to boil and then he added a piece of meat to it. Then he put out a piece of meat for his friend, Betty.

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Brain was getting ready to go hunt. He decided to take his lance, bow and five arrows to shoot. Brain started walking, and then saw a couple of rabbits. He heard limbs breaking, so Brain crouched down. He saw legs which made the hair on the back of his neck stand up, so Brian slowly got up to see what it was. Brain saw it was a female moose. He shot the moose and then it got mad and attacked Brain.

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Brain was still lying on the snow after he got attacked by the moose. Brian was dreaming he was a little boy again; he was back at home with his mother. Brian’s mother was calling him inside, but he couldn’t move. Brian realized he was dreaming and the moose was still on top of him. Then Brian moved away from under the moose. He got up and looked at the moose, and he decided to cut up the moose, for the meat. Finally at midnight, he stopped cutting up the meat and went to his shelter and fell asleep.

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Another storm was coming, and the rain turned into snow. After the snow came it was hard to find dry wood. It was getting cold, but Brian still had plenty of food left. Brian knew it was only going to get colder, so he started to make a jacket out of moose hide. Brian was also making a pair of mittens out of rabbit skin. Brian still had enough food to last him three months and had it stored safely so he wouldn’t encounter the bear again.

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Brian thought it was early December so he checked his marks and found out it was the last week of November. So Brian decides to have Thanksgiving. For Thanksgiving, Brian cooks moose hump. While he was eating he thought to himself why should I be thankful when I am lost out here in the woods. Then he heard a voice say that it could have been worse. Brian thought about the pilot that was under the frozen lake and he took back what he said and ate.

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One night Brian was sleeping, and a loud noise woke him up. At first he thought it was gun shot, and he yelled out “I’m over here, hey, I’m over here” then he heard the last shot, but it sounded far away and went back to sleep. The next day when he woke, he went to look for some tracks. He looked and looked and all he saw was rabbit tracks.

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It proved to be much harder than he thought it would be. That night a front came in and the temperature rose, a welcome relief, to probably an even zero, and it snowed. This time it snowed close to six inches, and while that would not have been so bad in itself, it came on top of snow that was already there. In all, it added up to just under two feet of snow. Dark came suddenly at four in the afternoon, and he sat in the dark for a while. He was thinking about the shot he heard and was leaning back gazing into the fire when he remembered the rabbits.

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Brian made his breakfast before the sun came up. When he got up the next morning, it was so cold that his urine froze on the way to the ground. It broke when it hit the ground. There was game everywhere like rabbits and a buck with one antler.
He fixed his bow up a little bit and took off his mittens before shooting. He took a shot… and pro hunters would have called it a perfect kill but to Brian it felt like murder. Brian felt awful. He wanted to miss, but for him to live something must die. It was cold. Brian missed his family and summer he also hadn’t seen a mosquito in months.

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Brian woke up there was snow outside still. He ate, and then saw a couple of wolves. They didn’t notice him. They just ran past the shelter. He didn’t want to bother them, but he just wanted to see where they were going.  He came into a wide open space where he shot a deer, but instead there was a moose that was eating. He just watched until he saw a gray wolf.
The moose was surrounded by gray wolves. The wolves kept biting the moose and killed it. Brian just sat there with
sadness.

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He had fooled himself before when he thought he heard planes, saw people, and heard gunshots, but there was nothing. So he just cleaned out the shelter, and brought in supplies. It was dark again, and he made dinner. The next morning, he got up
only to see a straight line. He followed it, and the line went across the lake. He followed and saw a couple of wolf prints. Then he saw... A MAN!!! The man was nice and invited Brian into his hut.