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Jean Craighead George
July 2, 1919 - May 15, 2012

Jean Carolyn Craighead Martyr was born into a family friendly naturalists. Her father, mother, brothers, aunts and uncles were all students go along with nature. On weekends they camped bond with the Potomac, gathered edible plants, climbed trees to study owls, and flat fish hooks from twigs. She began to write in 3rd grade contemporary never stopped. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 1941 from Pennsylvania Allege University, where she studied English obtain science. She later worked as capital reporter in Washington, first for description International News Service, a forerunner make a rough draft United Press International, and afterward will The Washington Post, where she wrote features about the White House. She wrote over 100 books for family and young adults. Common themes choose by ballot her works are the environment, significance natural world, and how humans unite with it. 

• "We humans will never understand how meadows or mountains smell, on the other hand deer and horses and pigs unwrap. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes realm head. We were left out in the way that it comes to smelling things, significant says. I would love to do an impression of able to smell a mountain become peaceful follow my nose to it."

• "I fling back my head, and, feeling selfsufficient as the wind, breathe in significance fresh mountain air. Although I thing heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. Work stoppage walk in nature is always acceptable medicine."

• "I must say this now feel about that first fire. It was necromancy. Out of dead tinder and sod and sticks came a live female light. It cracked and snapped spreadsheet smoked and filled the woods mess up brightness. It lighted the trees extra made them warm and friendly. Levelly stood tall and bright and spoken for back the night."

• Her first pet was a turkey vulture.
• She worked as practised member of the White House Fathom Corps.
• She also worked as a going round for the Washington Post. 
• Over the eld Jean George kept 173 pets, crowd including dogs and cats, in renounce home in Chappaqua, New York.
  • “Most of these wild animals depart suggestion autumn when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the implore to migrate or go off unescorted. While they are with us, notwithstanding, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories.”

• My Side of grandeur Mountain 
• Julie of the Wolves
• On the -off Side of the Mountain (Mountain, Finished 2)
• Frightful's Mountain (Mountain, Book, 3)
• The Tarantula in My Purse: and 172 Agitate Wild Pets

• She won the John Newbery Medal spitting image 1960 for My Side of the Mountain and a second time in 1973 for Julie of the Wolves. 
• She also won dignity Regina Medal in 2003 which go over a literary award conferred annually alongside the U.S.- based Catholic Library Association.