Jean Craighead George

Jean Craighead George

Jean Craighead George (b. 2 July 1919 in Washington, D.C.) is an American author. She lives in Chappaqua, New York. [ [http://cbcbooks.org/cbcmagazine/meet/jean_craighead_george.html Jean Craighead George] ]

Jean Craighead George has written over eighty popular books for young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning "Julie of the Wolves" and the Newbery Honor book "My Side of the Mountain". Most of her books deal with topics related to the environment and the natural world. While mostly writing children's fiction, she has also written at least two guides to cooking with wild foods, and an autobiography, "Journey Inward".

Biography

Jean Craighead George was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in a family of naturalists, Jean George has centered her life around writing and nature. Her father, mother, brothers, aunts and uncles were students of nature. On weekends they camped in the woods near their Washington, D.C. home, climbed trees to study owls, gathered edible plants and made fish hooks from twigs. Her first pet was a turkey vulture. In third grade she began writing and hasn't stopped yet. She has written over 100 books.

George graduated from Pennsylvania State University with degrees in both English and science in 1940. In the 1940s she was a member of the White House Press Corps and a reporter for "The Washington Post". From 1969-1982, she was a writer and editor at "Readers Digest". She married John Lothar George in 1944 and they divorced in 1963. [ [http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/CraigheadGeorge_Jean.html] Pennsylvania State University Center for the Book biography] Her first novels were written in collaboration with him, and she provided the illustrations for them, done in black and white watercolours or inks. A later editor encouraged her to use other illustrators for her books.

Ms. George has written over a hundred books, among them "My Side of the Mountain", a 1960 Newbery Honor Book, and its 1990 sequel "On the Far Side of the Mountain". In 1991, Ms. George became the first winner of the School Library Media Section of the New York Library Association's Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature, which was presented to her for the "consistent superior quality" of her literary works. Fact|date=August 2008

Her inspiration for the Newbery Medal-winning "Julie of the Wolves" evolved from two specific events during a summer she spent studying wolves and tundra at the Arctic Research Laboratory of Barrow, Alaska: "One was a small girl walking the vast and lonesome tundra outside of Barrow; the other was a magnificent alpha male wolf, leader of a pack in Denali National Park.... They haunted me for a year or more as did the words of one of the scientists at the lab: 'If there ever was any doubt in my mind that a man could live with the wolves, it is gone now. The wolves are truly gentlemen, highly social and affectionate.' "Fact|date=August 2008

The mother of three children, Jean George is a grandmother who has joyfully read to her grandchildren since the time they were born. Over the years Jean George has kept one hundred and seventy-three pets, not including dogs and cats, in her home in Chappaqua, New York. "Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behaviour and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories."Fact|date=August 2008

Works

*1948 "Vulpes the Red Fox" (American Woodland Tales series, with husband John L. George, illustrated by author Jean George)
*1949 "Vison the Mink" (American Woodland Tales series, with John L. George, illustrated by author Jean George)
*1950 "Masked Prowler, The Story of a Raccoon" (American Woodland Tales series, with John L. George, illustrated by author Jean George)
*1952 "Meph, the Pet Skunk" (American Woodland Tales series, with John L. George, illustrated by author Jean George)
*1954 "Bubo, the Great Horned Owl" (American Woodland Tales series, with John L. George, illustrated by author Jean George)
*1956 "Dipper of Copper Creek" (American Woodland Tales series, with John L. George, illustrated by author Jean George)
*1957 "The Hole in the Tree" (listed as Jean George, illustrated by author)
*1958 "Snow Tracks" (listed as Jean George, illustrated by author)
*1959 "My Side of the Mountain" (Mountain series #1, listed as Jean George, illustrated by author) (ISBN 0-14-034810-7)
*1962 "The Summer of the Falcon" (illustrated by author)
*1963 "Red Robin, Fly Up!" (picture book, photos by Ellan Young)
*1964 "Gull Number 737" (illustrated by author)
*1964 "Marvels and Mysteries of Our Animal World" (Jean George editor and contributor)
*1965 "Spring Comes to the Ocean" (illustrated by John Wilson)
*1966 "Hold Zero!" (illustrated by author)
*1967 "The Moon of the Owls" (The Thirteen Moons series #1, picture book illustrated by Jean Zallinger)
*1967 "The Moon of the Bears" (The Thirteen Moons series #2, picture book illustrated by Mac Shepard)
*1967 "The Moon of the Salamanders" (The Thirteen Moons series #3, picture book illustrated by John Kaufmann)
*1968 "The Moon of the Monarch Butterlies" (The Thirteen Moons series #5, picture book illustrated by Murray Tinkelman)
*1968 "The Moon of the Fox Pups" (The Thirteen Moons series #6, picture book illustrated by Kiyoaki Komoda)
*1968 "The Moon of the Wild Pigs" (The Thirteen Moons series #7, picture book illustrated by Peter Parnall)
*1968 "The Moon of the Mountain Lions" (The Thirteen Moons series #8, picture book illustrated by Winifred Lubell)
*1968 "Coyote in Manhattan" (illustrated by John Kaufmann)
*1969 "The Moon of the Chickarees" (The Thirteen Moons series #4, picture book illustrated by John Schoenherr)
*1969 "The Moon of the Deer" (The Thirteen Moons series #9, picture book illustrated by Jean Zallinger)
*1969 "The Moon of the Alligators" (The Thirteen Moons series #10, picture book illustrated by Adrina Zanazanian)
*1969 "The Moon of the Gray Wolves" (The Thirteen Moons series #11, picture book illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund)
*1969 "The Moon of the Winter Bird" (The Thirteen Moons series #12, picture book illustrated by Kazue Mizumura)
*1969 "The Moon of the Moles" (The Thirteen Moons series #13, picture book illustrated by Robert Levering)
*1969 "New York in Maps" (listed as Toy Lasker and Jean George)
*1970 "Beastly Inventions: A Surprising Investigation Into Just How Smart Animals Really Are" (illustrated by author)
*1971 "Who Really Killed Cock Robin?" (Ecological Mystery #1)
*1971 "All Upon a Stone" (picture book illustrated by Don Bolognese)
*1972 "Julie of the Wolves" (Julie series #1, illustrated by John Schoenherr) (ISBN 0-06-440058-1)
*1972 "Everglades Wildguide" (Official National Park Handbook #143, illustrated by Betty Fraser) (ISBN 0-06-446194-7)
*1974 "All Upon a Sidewalk" (picture book illustrated by Don Bolognese)
*1975 "Hook a Fish, Catch a Mountain"
*1976 "Going to the Sun"
*1978 "The Wentletrap Trap" (picture book illustrated by Symeon Shimin)
*1978 "The Wounded Wolf" (picture book illustrated by John Schoenherr)
*1978 "The American Walk Book"
*1979 "River Rats, Inc."
*1980 "The Cry of the Crow" (ISBN 0-06-440131-6)
*1982 "Journey Inward" (author's autobiography)
*1982 "The Grizzly Bear With the Golden Ears" (picture book illustrated by Tom Catania) (ISBN 0-06-021966-1)
*1982 "The Wild, Wild Cookbook" (illustrated by Walter Kessell)
*1983 "One Day in the Desert" (One Day series #1)
*1983 "The Talking Earth"
*1984 "One Day in the Alpine Tundra" (One Day series #2)
*1985 "How to Talk to Your Animals" (illustrated by author)
*1986 "One Day in the Prairie" (One Day series #3)
*1986 "How to Talk to Your Cat" (chapter book, originally included in 1985's "How to Talk to Your Animals", illustrated by author)
*1986 "How to Talk to Your Dog" (chapter book, originally included in 1985's "How to Talk to Your Animals", illustrated by author)
*1987 "Water Sky" (illustrated by author)
*1988 "One Day in the Woods" (One Day series #4)
*1989 "Shark Beneath the Reef"
*1990 "One Day in the Tropical Rainforest" (One Day series #5)
*1990 "On the Far Side of the Mountain" (Mountain series #2, illustrated by author) (ISBN 0-14-131241-6)
*1991 "The Moon of the Mountain Lions" (The Thirteen Moons #8, new edition of picture book illustrated by Ron Parker)
*1991 "The Moon of the Alligators" (The Thirteen Moons #10, new edition of picture book illustrated by Michael Rothman)
*1991 "The Moon of the Gray Wolves" (The Thirteen Moons #11, new edition of picture book illustrated by Sal Catalano)
*1992 "The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo" (Ecological Mystery #2)
*1992 "The Moon of the Salamanders" (The Thirteen Moons #3, new edition of picture book illustrated by Marlene Hill Werner)
*1992 "The Moon of the Chickarees (The Thirteen Moons #4, new edition of picture book illustrated by Don Rodell)
*1992 "The Moon of the Fox Pups" (The Thirteen Moons #6, new edition of picture book illustrated by Norman Adams)
*1992 "The Moon of the Wild Pigs" (The Thirteen Moons #7, new edition of picture book illustrated by Paul Mirocha)
*1992 "The Moon of the Deer" (The Thirteen Moons #9, new edition of picture book illustrated by Sal Catalano)
*1992 "The Moon of the Winter Bird" (The Thirteen Moons #12, new edition of picture book illustrated by Vincent Nasta)
*1992 "The Moon of the Moles" (The Thirteen Moons #13, new edition of picture book illustrated by Michael Rothman)
*1993 "The Fire Bug Connection" (Ecological Mystery #3) (ISBN 0-06-440474-9)
*1993 "The First Thanksgiving" (picture book illustrated by Thomas Locker) (ISBN 0-698-11392-6)
*1993 "The Big Book for Our Planet" (co-editor and contributor)
*1993 "Dear Rebecca, Winter is Here" (picture book illustrated by Loretta Krupinski) (ISBN 0-06-443427-3)
*1993 "The Moon of the Owls" (The Thirteen Moons #1, new edition of picture book illustrated by Wendell Minor)
*1993 "The Moon of the Bears" (The Thirteen Moons #2, new edition of picture book illustrated by Ron Parker)
*1993 "The Moon of the Monarch Butterflies" (The Thirteen Moons #5, new edition of picture book illustrated by Kam Mak)
*1994 "Julie" (Julie series #2) (ISBN 0-06-440573-7)
*1994 "Animals Who Have Won Our Hearts" (illustrated by Christine Herman Merrill)
*1995 "Everglades" (picture book illustrated by Wendell Minor) (ISBN 0-06-446194-7)
*1995 "There's an Owl in the Shower"
*1995 "Acorn Pancakes, Dandelion Salad and 38 Other Wild Recipes" (abridgement of 1982's "The Wild, Wild Cookbook", illustrated by Paul Mirocha)
*1995 "To Climb a Waterfall" (picture book illustrated by Thomas Locker)
*1996 "The Tarantula in My Purse and 172 Other Wild Pets" (ISBN 0-06-446201-3)
*1996 "The Case of the Missing Cutthroats, An Ecological Mystery" (reissue of 1975's "Hook a Fish, Catch a Mountain")
*1997 "Julie's Wolf Pack" (Julie series #3) (ISBN 0-06-027406-9)
*1997 "Look to the North, A Wolf Pup Diary" (picture book illustrated by Lucia Washburn) (ISBN 0-06-023641-8)
*1997 "Arctic Son" (picture book illustrated by Wendell Minor)
*1998 "Dear Katie, the Volcano is a Girl" (picture book illustrated by Daniel Powers) (ISBN 0-7868-0314-2)
*1998 "Giraffe Trouble" (picture book illustrated by Anna Vojtech) (ISBN 0-7868-5066-3)
*1998 "Elephant Walk" (picture book illustrated by Anna Vojtech)
*1998 "Gorilla Gang" (picture book illustrated by Stacey Schuett)
*1998 "Rhino Romp" (picture book illustrated by Stacey Schuett)
*1999 "Frightful's Mountain" (Mountain series #3, illustrated by author) (ISBN 0-525-46166-3)
*1999 "Morning, Noon, and Night" (picture book illustrated by Wendell Minor)
*1999 "Incredible Animal Adventures" (reissue of 1994's "Animals Who Have Won Our Hearts", illustrated by Donna Diamond)
*1999 "Snow Bear" (picture book illustrated by Wendell Minor)
*2000 "How to Talk to Your Cat" (picture book illustrated by Paul Meisel, abridged from 1986's chapter book of same title)
*2000 "My Side of the Mountain Trilogy" (compilation of Mountain series books #1, 2, and 3, illustrated by author)
*2001 "Nutik, the Wolf Pup" (Julie series #4, picture book illustrated by Ted Rand) ISBN 0-06-028164-2)
*2001 "Nutik and Amaroq Play Ball" (Julie series #5, picture book illustrated by Ted Rand) (ISBN 0-06-028166-9)
*2001 "Autumn Moon" (Seasons of the Moon #1, compilation of The Thirteen Moons books #9, 10, and 11)
*2001 "Winter Moon" (Seasons of the Moon #2, compilation of The Thirteen Moons books #12, 13, 1, and 2)
*2002 "Cliff Hanger" (Outdoor Adventures series #1, picture book illustrated by Wendell Minor) (ISBN 0-06-000260-3)
*2002 "Frightful's Daughter" (Mountain series #4, picture book illustrated by Daniel San Souci)
*2002 "Tree Castle Island" (illustrated by author)
*2002 "Spring Moon" (Seasons of the Moon #3, compilation of The Thirteen Moons books #3, 4, and 5)
*2002 "Summer Moon" (Seasons of the Moon #4, compilation of The Thirteen Moons books #6, 7, and 8)
*2003 "Fire Storm" (Outdoors Adventures series #2, picture book illustrated by Wendell Minor) (ISBN 0-06-000263-8)
*2004 "Snowboard Twist" (Outdoors Adventures series #3, picture book illustrated by Wendell Minor)
*2004 "Charlie's Raven"
*2007 "Frightful's Daughter Meets the Baron Weasel" (Mountain series #5, picture book illustrated by Daniel San Souci)

One Day Series

*1988 "One Day in the Woods"
*1990 "One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest"
*"One Day in the Alpine Tundra"
*"One Day in the Desert"
*"One Day in the Prairie"

Notes

External links

* [http://www.jeancraigheadgeorge.com/ Jean Craighead George Homepage of the author]
* [http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/CraigheadGeorge_Jean.html Pennsylvania State University Center for the Book biography]
* [http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=29 The Educational Paperback Association biography]
* [http://www.childrensbookradio.com/childrensbookradiopodcast22.mp3 2007 Audio Interview with Jean Craighead George]


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