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 love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love.
I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.
I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.
By the time I got to kindergarten, I was surprised to find out I was the only kid with a turkey vulture.
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 met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Never before had I been offered a contract and advance before a word had been written... I went home and began writing 'Julie of the Wolves.'
My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.
That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.
Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.
I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.
The dog wags its tail only at living things. A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile, is bestowed upon people, dogs , cats, squirrels, even mice and butterflies. - but no lifeless things. A dog won't wag its tail to its dinner or to a bed, card, stick, or even a bone.
To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.
Chicken is Good! It tastes like chicken.