"The Great Gilly Hopkins" is a young adult novel by Katherine Paterson, which revolves around the experiences of eleven year-old Galadriel "Gilly" Hopkins, a foster child. The novel touchingly depicts Gilly's difficult times, and the difficulties she causes, in the attempt to get her real mother to take care of her once more. Themes of love, family, and Christianity, among others, are dealt with as Gilly struggles to understand what family means.
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 choosi...
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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 th...
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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 o...
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Katherine Paterson
Katherine (Womeldorf) Paterson
