Jean Craighead George (1919-2012) · AuthorAuthor
Jean Craighead George
1919-2012 · American naturalist and author of children's books about nature and wildlife
About Jean Craighead George
Jean Craighead George (1919–2012) was an American naturalist and writer for young readers, raised in a family of field scientists; her twin brothers Frank and John Craighead became noted wildlife biologists and falconers. She wrote and illustrated My Side of the Mountain, which received a Newbery Honor in 1960, and later won the Newbery Medal for Julie of the Wolves (1973). Across more than a hundred books she wrote about animals, ecology and young people learning to live by close observation of the wild.
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My Side of the MountainJean Craighead George
1959 · Postwar Contemporary · Novel
My Side of the Mountain is the first-person record of Sam Gribley, a boy of about twelve who leaves his family's crowded New York City apartment to live alone for a year in the Catskill Mountains. Sam had told his father he meant to go to the old Gribley farm, land his great-grandfather once worked near the town of Delhi, and his father laughed and let him try, sure he would be back by morning.