Jean george craighead biography books

Smell that skunk? Well, the falcon takes the sky, the white-throated sparrow takes the low bushes, the skunk takes the earth I take the woods. See all Jean Craighead George's quotes ». Our them for March was books that were published the year you were born and in the Top 25 Books of that year. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Love Among the Walnuts by Jean Ferris. Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce. Sign in to vote ». Topics Mentioning This Author. Craig and Luke are now environmental scientists and Twig writes children's books, too. One summer Jean learned that the wolves were friendly, lived in a well-run society and communicated with each other in wolf talk -- sound, sight, posture, scent and coloration.

Excited to learn more, she took Luke and went to the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory in Barrow, Alaska, where scientists were studying this remarkable animal. She even talked to the wolves in their own language. With that Julie of the Wolves was born. A little girl walking on the vast lonesome tundra outside Barrow, and a magnificent alpha male wolf, leader of a pack in Denali National Park were the inspiration for the characters in the book.

Years later, after many requests from her readers, she wrote the sequels, Julie and Julie's Wolf Pack. She is still traveling and coming home to write. In the last decade she has added two beautiful new dimensions to her words beautiful full-color picture book art by Wendell Minor and others and - music. Reviewers were enthusiastic about the novel.

Hoyle felt that Julie of the Wolves "is George's most significant book," and that the "plot, character development, and setting are epic in dimension. George revisited her characters in Julie, a sequel that begins only minutes after the ending of Julie of the Wolves, and in Julie's Wolf Pack, told almost totally from the perspective of the wolves.

In Julie, the young Eskimo girl returns to her father's village, Kangik, only to discover that her long estranged father, Kapugen, has married a white woman and has left the old ways behind. In fact, readers learn that he is the one who shot Amaroq from a plane at the end of the previous novel. She struggles to save her beloved wolves and also falls in love with a young Siberian man, Peter Sugluk.

Susan Dunn, in a Voice of Youth Advocates review of Julie, commented that book is "an excellent adventure story" and a novel that supplies a "delicious taste of a nontraditional lifestyle and personality. George's sense of the place is so instinctive and so physically precise that the final Edenic vision of natural world order restored. With Julie's Wolf Pack, the focus shifts to the wolf pack, now led by Kapu, the alpha male.

Constantly challenged by a loner wolf, Raw Bones, Kapu must prove himself to the pack. Rabies is another enemy to the pack in this installment. Though many reviewers felt the third novel lacked the dramatic tension of the first two, largely because Julie is peripheral to the plot, Carrie Eldridge, writing in Kliatt, thought George's "obvious knowledge of her subject matter is admirable and resonates throughout the story.

Another novel set in the Everglades is The Talking Earth. More environmental issues are dealt with in There's an Owl in the Shower, in which an out-of-work logger's son takes in a baby owl only to discover that it is a species of spotted owl that cost his father his job. George has also teamed up with illustrator Wendell Minor and others to create a nest full of picture books introducing the ways of nature to the very young reader.

More northern adventures are served up in Arctic Son, a "picture-book ode to the Arctic," according to a reviewer for Publishers Weekly. A chronicle of the birth and early years of George's grandson, the book is a "warm, positive story of life in the Far North," wrote Mollie Bynum in School Library Journal. In Morning, Noon, and Night, another collaboration with Minor, George portrays the activities of a variety of animals from dawn on the East Coast to sundown on the West.

The Arctic spring is captured in Snow Bear, which tells of an Inuit girl who goes out on a hunt and encounters a bear cub. Patricia Manning, reviewing Snow Bear in School Library Journal, commented, "The simple, pleasing text is accompanied by luminous watercolors that faithfully record this charming if improbable chance meeting.

George adopts a story from the novel Julie's Wolf Pack for these tales of an Eskimo boy and the wolf pup he raises and trains. Warned not to become too fond of this wild animal, the boy, Amaroq, loves the animal anyway. Booklist's Linda Perkins found the same book to be a successful condensation of the longer tale "with heart-tugging appeal.

Jean died on May 15, , at the age of 92 from complications of congestive heart failure , according to Twig George, at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item.

Jean george craighead biography books

American writer Craighead George in Barrow, Alaska , Washington, D. Valhalla, New York , U. Biography [ edit ]. Works [ edit ]. References [ edit ].