Jean Craighead George
Jean Craighead George
Jean Carolyn Craighead Georgewas an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and Newbery runner-up My Side of the Mountain. Common themes in George's works are the environment and the natural world. Beside children's fiction, she wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods and one autobiography published 30 years before her death, Journey Inward...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 July 1919
CountryUnited States of America
I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.'
I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.
By the time I got to kindergarten, I was surprised to find out I was the only kid with a turkey vulture.