Among these is Jean Craighead George’s My Side of the Mountain, which tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who runs away from his home in New York City to live alone in the Catskill mountains. Hatchet is also part of a long tradition of American novels about young adults surviving in the wilderness. Paulsen’s nonfiction work Guts also relates to Hatchet in that it describes Paulsen’s own adolescent experiences with outdoor survival and sometimes trauma, including hunting, extreme weather, and attacks by wild animals. These sequels continue to expand the theme of nature’s role in Brian’s identity.
Paulsen wrote Brian’s Winter to satisfy readers who felt that Hatchet ended too tidily and wanted to know how Brian could survive the coming winter. Perhaps the most notable of its sequels is Brian’s Winter, which was the third published chronologically but offers an alternate ending to Brian’s rescue at the conclusion of Hatchet. Hatchet is the first of five novels about Brian Robeson’s experiences in the wilderness.
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