Author
Jean Craighead George
2 July 1919
Jean Craighead was born in Washington. Her parents and extended family were naturalists, and she spent weekends during her childhood camping out in the woods, studying nature, foraging, and fishing. Her first pet was a turkey vulture. In 1940, George graduated from Pennsylvania State University with degrees in both English and Science. She became a reporter for The Washington Post and was a member of the White House Press Corps. In 1944 she married John Lothur George, and began writing novels with him which she illustrated. She divorced in 1963. In 1960 she received a Newbery Honor for *My Side of the Mountain*. In 1969, she went to work for *Readers Digest* as a writer and editor. She has written over 100 books.
Bibliography
Books
30 books
Prentice Hall Literature--Copper
1991
Lawrence E. Berliner, Arnold Adoff, Lloyd Alexander, Isaac Asimov, Mary Austin, Natalie Babbitt, Basho, James Berry, Rhoda Blumberg, Ray Bradbury, Lewis Carroll, John Ciardi, Sandra Cisneros, Hattie Clark, Beverly Cleary, Olivia Clemens, Olivia Coolidge, Jack Cope, Bill Cosby, Harold Courlander, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, I. G. Edmonds, T. S. Eliot, E-Yeh-Sure, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Fleischman, Russell Freedman, Robert Frost, John Gardner, Jean Craighead George, Nikki Giovanni, Eloise Greenfield, Virginia Hamilton, George Herzog, Douglas Hill, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Kristin Hunter, Francisco Jimenez, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Brenda A. Johnston, Norton Juster, William Lloyd Garrison, Carol Kendall, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Kuralt, Myron Levoy, C. S. Lewis, Yao-Wen Li, Myra Cohn Livingston, Jack London, Alice Low, Neil McAleer, David McCord, Marianna Mayer, Eve Merriam, Lillian Morrison, Lensey Namioka, Susan Nanus, Ogden Nash, Huynh Quang Nhuong, Philippa Pearce, Richard Peck, Charlotte Pomerantz, Jack Prelutsky, Horacio Quiroga, Gail Robinson, Andrew A. Rooney, Carl Sandburg, Seattle Chief, Ian Serraillier, William Shakespeare, Katherine B. Shippen, Leslie Marmon Silko, Shel Silverstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Soseki, Gary Soto, John Steptoe, Carrol Alice Stout, Jesse Stuart, Vivian L. Thompson, James Thurber, Yoshiko Uchida, Louis Untermeyer, Anne Terry White, Valerie Worth, Laurence Yep, Jane Yolen, Charlotte Zolotow, Joan Aiken, Kristin Hunter Lattany, Francisco Jiménez, Margery Facklam, Susy Clemens, Garrison Keillor, Thomas Boswell, May Swenson, Sheryl L Nelms, E-Yeh-Shure, Basho, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, Judith Viorst, Mai Vo-Dinh, Douglas Hill, l. G. Edmonds, Mary MacLeod
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
2002
Kate Kinsella, Kevin Feldman, Colleen Shea-Stump Ph.D., Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Edward E. Wilson, Ray Bradbury, Cynthia Rylant, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Diana Chang, Walter Dean Myers, Jack London, Francisco Jiménez, Russell Baker, Garrison Keillor, Leslie Silko, Myron Levoy, Helen Keller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Charlotte Pomerantz, George Eliot, Nikki Giovanni, Jerry Spinelli, Jesse Stuart, Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Zebrowski, Paul Zindel, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Rudyard Kipling, Julia Alvarez, Judith Viorst, Arnold Adoff, Ogden Nash, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rosemary Benét, Stephen Vincent Benét, Langston Hughes, Joan Aiken, James Thurber, Aesop, Jane Yolen, Sandra Cisneros, Maya Angelou, E. E. Cummings, Christopher Paul Curtis, Russell Freedman, Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns, Isaac Asimov, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jack Prelutsky, Robert D. Ballard, Laurence Yep, George Laycock, Chinua Achebe, John Gardner, James Berry, Антон Павлович Чехов, Martin Waddell, Charles Dickens, Jean Craighead George, Lensey Namioka, Lloyd Alexander, Patricia McKissack, Fredrick McKissack, Jr., F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amanda Borden, Susy Clemens, Gary Soto, William Harwood, Joseph Bruchac, Kerry Cochrane, Bailey White, Susan Nanus, Arthur Miller, Richard Peck, Shel Silverstein, Lewis Carroll, Lillian Morrison, Bashö, Octavio Paz, Sara Teasdale, William Shakespeare, Rachel Field, Eve Merriam, Emily Dickinson, John Phillip Santos, Лев Толстой, Virginia Hamilton, l. G. Edmonds, Julius Lester, Olivia E. Coolidge, Ricardo E. Alegria, Tran, My-Van., Pearson Education, Francisco Jimenez
Julie of the Wolves Treasury (Julie / Julie of the Wolves / Julie's Wolf Pack)
1997
Jean Craighead George
The Kingfisher book of great boy stories
2000
Michael Morpurgo, A. A. Milne, Jeff Brown, J. M. Barrie, Carlo Collodi, Roald Dahl, Ted Hughes, Richmal Crompton, T. H. White, C. S. Lewis, Philippa Pearce, Rudyard Kipling, Jean Craighead George, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rosemary Sutcliff, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain
The Book of Children's Classics
1997
Don Freeman, Munro Leaf, David McPhail, Ludwig Bemelmans, Barbara Cooney, Beatrix Potter, A. A. Milne, Judy Blume, Robert McCloskey, Jean Craighead George, Astrid Lindgren, Donald J. Sobol, Roald Dahl, Lloyd Alexander
