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Katherine Paterson's reverence for words coupled with her respect for the power of story prompted her to keep writing for years when, not ready to publish, she was learning her craft. Her reluctance overcome, her apprenticeship served, the stories and es...

October 21, 1932. Born in the Jiangsu Province of China in the city of Qing Jiang. "If I tell you that I was born in China of Southern Presbyterian missionary parents, I have already given away the three chief clues to my tribal memory. "Let me start at...

Two-time Newbery Medal winner Katherine Paterson writes of children in crisis, at the crossroads of major decisions in their lives. Her youthful protagonists turn "tragedy to triumph by bravely choosing a way that is not selfishly determined," according...

Byline: Neil Novelli contributing writer One look at the sublimely sour, baleful expression on the face of young Gilly Hopkins (Jo D'Aloisio), and you know that she's the essence of every resentful, hurting pre-adolescent. Like a diminutive Ahab, 11-year old Gilly is...

Byline: TARA CONLAN SIR Anthony Hopkins has decided it is time to help fellow alcoholics by talking about his long battle with the bottle. But how much comfort they will derive from his testimony remains to be seen. The 64-year-...

[The Great Gilly Hopkins] is a book which, having a choice to make between a happy ending and a hard one—both being reasonable—chooses the latter, thereby finally declaring itself as something rather different from what it has led the readers to expect. For the story line has healthy antecedents in literature from Oliver Twist onward: an abandoned child, stranded in a bizarre place among bizarre people, learns how to value herself and others. (p. 1) Katherine Paterson develops her characters t...

"God help the children of the flower children" is the theme of Paterson's ["The Great Gilly Hopkins"], a potentially rich story but disappointing in some ways. At 11, Gilly (who was abandoned by her hippie mother at birth) has been given up by a series of tired foster parents. In her new home, the guardian is obese, sloppy, semi-literate Maime Trotter whose other charge is a timid little boy…. Scheming to escape, Gilly gains the confidence of … her new family...

Eleven-year-old Gilly Hopkins is a foster child seemingly modeled on the Tatum O'Neal character from Paper Moon and Bad News Bears. She is endowed with an above-average intelligence, a stubborn aggressiveness, and uncanny abilities to lie, steal, and see through hypocrisy…. Young readers might—as Gilly does—find Trotter's moralizing at the end a bit overdone, but they will appreciate the crisp, realistic dialogue, believable and humorous writing, and broad array of unortho...