This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs

Longlisted for the National Book Award<br> <br>The Newbery Honor-winning author of <i>Hatchet </i>and <i>Dogsong</i> shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of adventure.<br><br>Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle guarded his well-being, and a horse led him across a desert. Through his interactions with dogs, horses, birds, and more, Gary has been struck with the belief that animals know more than we may fathom.<br> <br>His understanding and admiration of animals is well known, and in <i>This Side of Wild</i>, which has taken a lifetime to write, he proves the ways in which they have taught him to be a better person.