The Great Gilly Hopkins
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| Author | Katherine Paterson |
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| Genre | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Thomas Y. Crowell Co. |
Publication date | March 28, 1978 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 148 pp. (first edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0064402019 |
| OCLC | 3542211 |
| LC Class | PZ7.P273 Gr |
The Great Gilly Hopkins is a 1978 realistic children's novel by American author Katherine Paterson. It won the U.S. National Book Award in 1979. 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. Árpád Göncz's Hungarian translation has been adapted into a radio play, with Zsófi Jávor playing Gilly and Márta Fónay playing Trotter.