Download Hatchet Audible Audio Edition Gary Paulsen Peter Coyote Listening Library Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 3 hours and 42 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Listening Library Audible.com Release Date October 31, 2003 Whispersync for Voice Ready Language English, English ASIN B0000X8R9S

Hatchet Audible Audio Edition Gary Paulsen Peter Coyote Listening Library Books Reviews

• My 10 year old son, and I listened to "Hatchet" on Audio CD format, while driving from WA State to eastern B.C., Canada. Read splendidly by Peter Coyote, it is a captivating story of a boy's survival in the northern Canadian woods. My son was mesmerized. He and I thoroughly enjoyed the story, and it helped time pass quickly on our long drive north. I think the entire audio version is just over 3 hours, with 3 CD's. I highly recommend this book for any youngster who's curious about learning survival skills, and imagines what it would be like to have to survive on their own.
• My husband remembered enjoying this book from his childhood and wanted to share with our own children (8 year old and 6 year old twins). He read the book to them over the course of a couple of weeks and they loved it. Our kids wouldn’t let him get out of reading at least one chapter every night. We just purchased Brians Winter to start tonight and plan on reading them the entire series.
• I read this book with my six year old daughter and her response was incredible. She begged me to read the next chapter each night, and we had wonderful discussions about what is truly important in life. If you have a younger advanced reader I would say go for it!
• This is a GREAT book. It is intended for youth, I think, but I really enjoyed it myself. I have a grandson who is having problems reading so I purchased the kindel book with the audible narration for him. He was enchanted. It really helped him to be able to read the words while listening to the narration. I bought the entire series for him and am so pleased with his response. He is on the third book right now and can hardly waid to finish his chores and homework each night so that he can read more of his book. My thanks to Gary Paulsen for creating a series of books that hold the interest of the reader and encourage them to learn the love of reading.
• I loved this book. This book had all of the right story leading up to the plot. I love this book because it is a great book for a thrill. When you are reading it you always want to know what is going to happen next. This book was great at having different parts of action and then calmed down and then it went back up again. There was a little bit of foreshadowing in this book that would show how Brian would survive and this gave the reader a little bit of relief. I would like to find more books like this one. I love reading survival books and see how people deal with different challenges. A lot of the time books can give great ideas for what to do in real life. Though surviving with only a hatchet would be hard it is always wanting you to know what will happen next. This is a great book and I would read it again. I want to read more books from Gary Paulson because I loved this book so much. It is an easy and fun read. This book was awesome!
• I really loved this book as a young boy in elementary school. That was probably the last time I read through it.
  
  Feeling nostalgic, I decided to go ahead and pick this up to re-read it after all these years. It holds up decently as an adult but you really notice it's flaws.
  
  My main complaint is that it ends so abruptly. I don't remember that, but the end of the books feels really rushed, like the author said, "Whoops, I'm going on too long here," and decided to wrap it up quickly. Not so noticeable as a young kid with a short attention span but pretty jarring when an adult. Still, this book was made for kids so it's excusable.
• Thatcher would appear to be an unlikely choice for an old guy like me. Written for and classified as Young Adult literature. That having been said, one of the appeals of PBS*s The Great American Read is that it has introduced me to a wide range of literary types. Anne Of Green Gables made me want to encourage my granddaughters to read about a young lady whose unabashed optimism allowed her to be successful in a world where he had none of her classmates' socio-economic advantages. In Hatchet 13 year old Brian was forced to fight for survival without any of today's electronic conveniences. My grandson could benefit from learning that there are situations where it would require him to use his personal strengths to survive in a non-electronic world.
• I could not stop reading Hatchet. The story is astonishing - not least because author Gary Paulsen says he himself experienced nearly everything that happens to the book's only real character, Brian. The adventures and threats and risks and successes of trying to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness are told in rich detail. But the most riveting parts of Hatchet are those that show how Brian's mind works, because his brain, even more than his body, has to make sense of his new world. Paulsen brilliantly describes, sometimes second by second, how Brian wrestles with shock, fear, confusion, and the absolute need to survive. Although to my surprise I found six or eight typos in this edition, I consider the story and the writing outstanding.