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Jean Carolyn Craighead George was 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.

For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer she was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1964. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. July 1919 – 15. May 2012   •   Other names ジーン・クレイグヘッド・ジョージ
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My Side of the Mountain
My Side of the Mountain
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Jean Craighead George Quotes

“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”

Jean Craighead George book My Side of the Mountain

Source: My Side of the Mountain

Books

“Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning”

Jean Craighead George book My Side of the Mountain

Source: My Side of the Mountain

Sun

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