The Great Gilly Hopkins is a realistic children's novel by Katherine Paterson. It was published by Crowell in 1978 and it won the U.S. National Book Award next year. In 2012 it was ranked number 63 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal – the third of three books by Paterson in the top 100. A film adaptation starring Sophie Nélisse as Gilly Hopkins and Kathy Bates as Trotter was released in 2015. The novel has been translated into Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish, and Árpád Göncz's Hungarian translation has been adapted into a radio play.
About The Great Gilly Hopkins
Based on Katherine Paterson's novel of the same name, the story centers on preteen Gilly who finds herself moving from foster home to foster home before meeting Maime Trotter.
Achievement of The Great Gilly Hopkins
Stephen Herek directed the film which was later acquired for distribution by Lionsgate.
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Latest information about The Great Gilly Hopkins updated on July 28 2021.
