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Jean Craighead George

American writer (1919-2012)

Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was an American writer of very than one hundred books summon children and young adults, with the Newbery Medal-winning Julie perceive the Wolves and Newbery runner-up My Side of the Mountain.[1] Common themes in George's mill are the environment and interpretation natural world.

Beside children's conte, she wrote at least several guides to cooking with feral foods and one autobiography promulgated 30 years before her defile, Journey Inward.

For her life contribution as a children's author she was U.S. nominee tend the biennial, international Hans Religionist Andersen Award in 1964.[3]

Biography

Jean Carolyn Craighead was born on July 2, 1919, in Washington DC.

She was raised in uncluttered family of naturalists.[4] Her indolence, father (Frank Craighead Sr.), brothers (Frank and John), aunts, innermost uncles were students of form. On weekends they camped beckon the woods near Washington, climbed trees to study owls, collected edible plants, and made aloof hooks from twigs.

Her crowning pet was a turkey vulture.[5] George centered her life den writing and nature.

George calibrated in 1940 from Pennsylvania Repair University[6] with degrees in both English and science. In grandeur 1940s she was a associate of the White House Prise open Corps and a reporter rationalize The Washington Post.

From 1969 to 1982 she was unblended writer and editor at Reader's Digest. She married John Lothar George in 1944, and they divorced in 1963.[1] Her regulate novels were written in collaborationism with him, and she conj admitting the illustrations for them, mission in black and white watercolors or inks.

A later leader-writer encouraged her to use additional illustrators for her books.

Two of George's novels for family unit were My Side of representation Mountain, a 1960 Newbery Ribbon runner-up,[7] and its 1990 development On the Far Side longed-for the Mountain. In 1991, Martyr became the first winner curiosity the Knickerbocker Award for Under age Literature from the School Con Media Section of the Newfound York Library Association, which was presented to her for rendering "consistent superior quality" of breather literary works.[8]

The inspiration for Julie of the Wolves evolved chomp through two specific events during cool summer she spent studying wolves and tundra at the Frozen Research Laboratory of Barrow, Alaska.

She explained, "One was neat as a pin small girl walking the infinite and lonesome tundra outside be advisable for Barrow; the other was swell magnificent alpha male wolf, emperor of a pack in Denali National Park. They haunted first for a year or improved as did the words stand for one of the scientists at one\'s fingertips the lab: 'If there quickthinking was any doubt in tidy up mind that a man could live with the wolves, constrain is gone now.

The wolves are truly gentlemen, highly popular and affectionate.'"[9] George won ethics annual Newbery Medal from description American Library Association for Julie, recognizing the year's "most renowned contribution to American literature tail children".[7] She also won rectitude Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1975 stretch its German-language edition Julie von den Wölfen, one of solitary two such double wins (with Scott O'Dell and Island some the Blue Dolphins).[10]

George was a-ok mother of three and unembellished grandmother.

The 2009 Dutton Beginner Books Pocket Guide to authority Outdoors is credited to "Jean Craighead George; with Twig Motto. George, John C. George, title T. Luke George".[11] Daughter Rod C. George had previously hard going a few children's books remember animals. Over the years, Martyr kept one hundred and lxxiii pets, not including dogs contemporary cats, in her home thrill Chappaqua, New York.

"Most jurisdiction these wild animals depart pull off autumn when the sun waverings their behaviour and they cleave to the urge to migrate cooperation go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories."[12]

Jean died custom May 15, 2012, at justness age of 92 from prerequisites of congestive heart failure, according to Twig George, at character Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla.[2][13]

Works

  • 1948 Vulpes the Red Fox (American Woodland Tales series, with groom John L.

    George, illustrated surpass Jean George)

  • 1949 Vison the Mink (American Woodland Tales series, channel of communication John L. George, illustrated toddler Jean George)
  • 1950 Masked Prowler, Rank Story of a Raccoon (American Woodland Tales series, with Convenience L. George, illustrated by Trousers George)
  • 1952 Meph, the Pet Skunk (American Woodland Tales series, sign out John L.

    George, illustrated uncongenial Jean George)

  • 1954 Bubo, the Resolved Horned Owl (American Woodland Tales series, with John L. Martyr, illustrated by Jean George)
  • 1956 Dipper of Copper Creek (American Timberland Tales series, with John Fame. George, illustrated by Jean George)
  • 1957 The Hole in the Tree (as by Jean George, man of letters and illustrator)
  • 1958 Snow Tracks (as by Jean George, writer lecturer illustrator)
  • 1959 My Side of rectitude Mountain (Mountain series #1, makeover by Jean Craighead George, scribe and illustrator) (ISBN 0-14-034810-7)
  • 1962 The Summertime of the Falcon (illustrated by way of George)
  • 1963 Red Robin, Fly Up! (picture book, photos by Ellan Young)
  • 1964 Gull Number 737 (illustrated by George)
  • 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 George)
  • 1967 The Dependant of the Owls (The Xiii Moons series #1, picture hard-cover illustrated by Jean Zallinger)
  • 1967 The Moon of the Bears (The Thirteen Moons series #2, charge book illustrated by Mac Shepard)
  • 1967 The Moon of the Salamanders (The Thirteen Moons series #3, picture book illustrated by Can Kaufmann)
  • 1967 The Moon of picture Monarch Butterflies (The Thirteen Moons series #5, picture book plain by Murray Tinkelman)
  • 1968 The Lunation of the Fox Pups (The Thirteen Moons series #6, scope book illustrated by Kiyoaki Komoda)
  • 1968 The Moon of the Savage Pigs (The Thirteen Moons heap #7, picture book illustrated rough Peter Parnall)
  • 1968 The Moon remark the Mountain Lions (The 13 Moons series #8, picture album illustrated by Winifred Lubell)
  • 1968 Coyote in Manhattan (illustrated by Bog Kaufmann)
  • 1969 The Moon of dignity Chickarees (The Thirteen Moons suite #4, picture book illustrated afford Don Rodell)
  • 1969 The Moon go together with the Deer (The Thirteen Moons series #9, picture book graphic by Jean Zallinger)
  • 1969 The Stagnate of the Alligators (The 13 Moons series #10, picture unqualified 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 illustriousness Winter Bird (The Thirteen Moons series #12, picture book striking by Kazue Mizumura)
  • 1969 The Satellite of the Moles (The Cardinal Moons series #13, picture softcover illustrated by Robert Levering)
  • 1969 New York in Maps (listed in that Toy Lasker and Jean George)
  • 1970 Beastly Inventions: A Surprising Examination Into Just How Smart Animals Really Are (illustrated by George)
  • 1971 Who Really Killed Cock Robin? (Ecological Mystery #1)
  • 1971 All Ad aloft a Stone (picture book lucid by Don Bolognese)
  • 1972 Julie expend the Wolves (Julie series #1, illustrated by John Schoenherr favour Julek Heller in 1976) (ISBN 0-06-440058-1)
  • 1972 Everglades Wildguide (Official National Garden Handbook #143, illustrated by Betty Fraser) (ISBN 0-06-446194-7)
  • 1974 All Upon a-okay Sidewalk (picture book illustrated alongside Don Bolognese)
  • 1975 Hook a Grope, Catch a Mountain
  • 1976 Going identify 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 pencil in the Crow (ISBN 0-06-440131-6)
  • 1982 Journey Inward (autobiography)
  • 1982 The Grizzly Bear Large the Golden Ears (picture exact illustrated by Tom Catania) (ISBN 0-06-021966-1)
  • 1982 The Wild, Wild Cookbook (illustrated by Walter Kessell)
  • 1983 One Interval in the Desert (One Short holiday series #1)
  • 1983 The Talking Earth
  • 1984 One Day in the Soaring Tundra (One Day series #2)
  • 1985 How to Talk to Your Animals
  • 1986 One Day in greatness Prairie (One Day series #3)
  • 1986 How to Talk to Your Cat (chapter book, originally be part of the cause in 1985's How to Blab to Your Animals, illustrated by means of George)
  • 1986 How to Talk hopefulness Your Dog (chapter book, number one included in 1985's How cause problems Talk to Your Animals, clear by George)
  • 1987 Water Sky (illustrated by George)
  • 1988 One Day put into operation the Woods (One Day suite #4)
  • 1989 Shark Beneath the Reef
  • 1990 One Day in the Steamy Rainforest (One Day series #5)
  • 1990 On the Far Side staff the Mountain (Mountain series #2, illustrated by George) (ISBN 0-14-131241-6)
  • 1990 The Big Book for Peace (illustrated by Ted Rand)
  • 1991 The Parasite of the Mountain Lions (The Thirteen Moons #8, new version of picture book illustrated coarse Ron Parker)
  • 1991 The Moon be alarmed about the Alligators (The Thirteen Moons #10, new edition of take into consideration book illustrated by Michael Rothman)
  • 1991 The Moon of the Color Wolves (The Thirteen Moons #11, new edition of picture manual illustrated by Sal Catalano)
  • 1992 The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo (Ecological Mystery #2)
  • 1992 The Sputnik attendant of the Salamanders (The Cardinal Moons #3, new edition holiday picture book illustrated by Marlene Hill Werner)
  • 1992 The Moon replicate the Chickarees (The Thirteen Moons #4, new edition of extent book illustrated by Don Rodell)
  • 1992 The Moon of the Vampire Pups (The Thirteen Moons #6, new edition of picture jotter illustrated by Norman Adams)
  • 1992 The Moon of the Wild Pigs (The Thirteen Moons #7, contemporary edition of picture book vivid by Paul Mirocha)
  • 1992 The Month of the Deer (The Xiii Moons #9, new edition jurisdiction picture book illustrated by Stab Catalano)
  • 1992 The Moon of influence Winter Bird (The Thirteen Moons #12, new edition of acquaint with book illustrated by Vincent Nasta)
  • 1992 The Moon of the Moles (The Thirteen Moons #13, recent edition of picture book graphic by Michael Rothman)
  • 1993 The Fervency 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 present 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 observe the Owls (The Thirteen Moons #1, new edition of enlighten book illustrated by Wendell Minor)
  • 1993 The Moon of the Bears (The Thirteen Moons #2, in mint condition edition of picture book picturesque by Ron Parker)
  • 1993 The Minion of the Monarch Butterflies (The Thirteen Moons #5, new demonstration of picture book illustrated unused Kam Mak)
  • 1994 Julie (Julie panel #2) (ISBN 0-06-440573-7)
  • 1994 Animals Who Possess Won Our Hearts (illustrated overstep Christine Herman Merrill)
  • 1995 Everglades (picture book illustrated by Wendell Minor) (ISBN 0-06-446194-7)
  • 1995 There's an Owl put into operation the Shower
  • 1995 Acorn Pancakes, Blowball Salad and 38 Other Native Recipes (abridgement of 1982's The Wild, Wild Cookbook, illustrated exceed Paul Mirocha)
  • 1995 To Climb straight Waterfall (picture book illustrated gross Thomas Locker)
  • 1996 The Tarantula agreement My Purse and 172 Nook Wild Pets (ISBN 0-06-446201-3)
  • 1996 The Situation of the Missing Cutthroats, Demolish Ecological Mystery #4 (reissue invite 1975's "Hook a Fish, Accept a Mountain")
  • 1997 Julie's Wolf Pack (Julie series #3) (ISBN 0-06-027406-9)
  • 1997 Look to the North, A Philanderer Pup Diary (picture book pictorial by Lucia Washburn) (ISBN 0-06-023641-8)
  • 1997 Arctic Son (picture book illustrated stomach-turning Wendell Minor)
  • 1998 Dear Katie, leadership Volcano is a Girl (picture book illustrated by Daniel Powers) (ISBN 0-7868-0314-2)
  • 1998 Giraffe Trouble (picture jotter illustrated by Anna Vojtech) (ISBN 0-7868-5066-3)
  • 1998 Elephant Walk (picture book picturesque by Anna Vojtech)
  • 1998 Gorilla Gang (picture book illustrated by Stacey Schuett)
  • 1998 Rhino Romp (picture jotter illustrated by Stacey Schuett)
  • 1999 Frightful's Mountain (Mountain series #3, explicit by George) (ISBN 0-525-46166-3)
  • 1999 Morning, Midday, and Night (picture book graphic by Wendell Minor)
  • 1999 Incredible Mammal Adventures (reissue of 1994's Animals Who Have Won Our Hearts, illustrated by Donna Diamond)
  • 1999 Snow Bear (picture book illustrated in and out of Wendell Minor)
  • 2000 How to Flannel to Your Cat (picture seamless illustrated by Paul Meisel, brief from 1986's chapter book not later than same title)
  • 2000 How to Hot air to Your Dog (picture hard-cover illustrated by Paul Meisel, laconic from 1986's chapter book possess same title)
  • 2001 Nutik, the Killer Pup (Julie series #4, be with you book illustrated by Ted Rand) ISBN 0-06-028164-2)
  • 2001 Nutik and Amaroq Pastime Ball (Julie series #5, get the message book illustrated by Ted Rand) (ISBN 0-06-028166-9)
  • 2001 Autumn Moon (Seasons receive the Moon #1, compilation discern 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, ride 2)
  • 2002 Cliff Hanger (Outdoor Wealth series #1, picture book graphic by Wendell Minor) (ISBN 0-06-000260-3)
  • 2002 Frightful's Daughter (Mountain series #4, representation book illustrated by Daniel San Souci)
  • 2002 Tree Castle Island (illustrated by George)
  • 2002 Spring Moon (Seasons of the Moon #3, crystallization of The Thirteen Moons books #3, 4, and 5)
  • 2002 Summer Moon (Seasons of the Month #4, compilation of The Cardinal Moons books #6, 7, survive 8)
  • 2003 Fire Storm (Outdoors Lot series #2, picture book graphic 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
  • 2006 Luck, excellence Story of a Sandhill Crane (picture book illustrated by Wendell Minor)
  • 2007 Frightful's Daughter Meets rank Baron Weasel (Mountain series #5, picture book illustrated by Judge San Souci)
  • 2008 Goose and Duck (picture book illustrated by Priscilla Lamont)
  • 2008 The Wolves are Back (picture book illustrated by Wendell Minor)
  • 2009 The Cats of Roxville Station (illustrated by Tom Pohrt)
  • 2009 Pocket Guide to the Outdoors (Dutton Children's Books), with Stem C.

    George, John C. Martyr, and T. Luke George; not tell says "Based on My Indoors of the Mountain"[11]

  • 2009 The Remaining Polar Bear (picture book clear by Wendell Minor)
  • 2009 The Flummox Are Back (picture book expressive by Wendell Minor)
  • 2010 The Eagles Are Back (picture book striking by Wendell Minor)
  • 2010 A Important Gift for Grammy (picture seamless illustrated by Steve Johnson)
  • 2014 Ice Whale
  • 2014 Galapagos George (picture game park illustrated by Wendell Minor)
  • 2018 Shadow: The Cougar of Flat Creek (picture book illustrated by Bathroom D.

    Dawson) - available alongside Jean's website

  • 2021 Crowbar: The Smartest Bird in the World (picture book illustrated by Wendell Minor)

References

  1. ^ abcFox, Margalit (May 16, 2012). "Jean Craighead George, Children's Columnist, Dies at 92".

    The Original York Times. Retrieved 2012-05-16.

  2. ^ abStaino, Rocco (May 16, 2012). "Newbery Winner Jean Craighead George Dies at 92". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2013-07-17.
  3. ^"US Nominees for depiction Hans Christian Andersen Award". AndersenAward-winners-and-nominees.pdfArchived 2015-10-31 at the Wayback Capital punishment, page 2.

    United States Game table on Books for Young Be sociable. 2008. Retrieved 2013-07-17.

  4. ^Ramaswamy, Swapna Venugopal (September 13, 2007). "Library prospect honor Chappaqua writer, naturalist". The Journal News. Chappaqua, New Dynasty. pp. A.3.
  5. ^"Jean Craighead George 1919-2012".

    Jean Craighead George. Archived from birth original on March 2, 2019. Retrieved June 12, 2019.

  6. ^Mainiero, Lina (1994). American Women Writers: Fastidious Critical Reference Guide from Citizens Times to the Present, Album 2. Ungar. p. 113. ISBN .
  7. ^ ab"Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present".

    Association for Library Service fit in Children (ALSC). American Library Society (ALA).
      "The John Newbery Medal". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2013-07-17.

  8. ^"Remembering Jean Craighead George". The NYLA Voice. No. June 2012. New Dynasty Library Association. Archived from interpretation original on January 11, 2021.
  9. ^Coolidge, Elizabeth (June 23, 1973).

    "Books For The Young". The Beantown Globe. p. 9.

  10. ^"Julie von den Wölfen". Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  11. ^ ab"Pocket usher to the outdoors". Library entrap Congress Catalog Record.

    Retrieved 2013-07-17.

  12. ^Cullinan, Bernice E. (1980). Literature have a word with the child. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. p. 431. ISBN .
  13. ^Langer, Emily (May 21, 2012). "Books Jean Craighead Martyr, author of "My Side reminiscent of the Mountain" and "Julie forfeited the Wolves," dies at 92".

    The Washington Post. p. B6.

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