Jean Craighead George (1919–2012)

Auteur van Geef mij maar een boom in de wildernis

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Jean Craighead George was born on July 2, 1919 in Washington, D.C. She received degrees in English and science from Pennsylvania State University. She began her career as a reporter for the International News Service. In the 1940s she was a member of the White House press corps for The Washington toon meer Post. During her lifetime, she wrote over 100 novels including My Side of the Mountain, which was a 1960 Newbery Honor Book, On the Far Side of the Mountain, Julie of the Wolves, which won the Newbery Medal, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack. She also wrote two guides to cooking with wild foods and an autobiography entitled Journey Inward. In 1991, she became the first winner of the School Library Media Section of the New York Library Association's Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature. She died on May 15, 2012 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Gangbare naam: George, Jean Craighead
Officiële naam: George, Jean Carolyn Craighead
Geboortedatum: 1919-07-02
Overlijdensdatum: 2012-05-15
Geslacht: female
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Washington, D.C., USA
Plaats van overlijden: Valhalla, New York, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden: congestive heart failure
Woonplaatsen: Chappaqua, New York, USA
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Opleiding: Pennsylvania State University (BA|1941)
Beroepen: journalist
author
editor
children's book author
Relaties: George, Twig C. (daughter)
George, John L. (spouse)
George, Craig (son)
Organisaties: Washington Post
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: Newbery Honor Medal (1960)
Newbery Medal (1973)
Regina Medal (2003)

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Water Sky door Jean Craighead George

A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for awhile learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.

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Vulpes the Red Fox door Jean Craighead George

He is cunning and courageous, and outwits hunters at every turns . . . Vulpes was the pride of his parents, the smartest pup of the litter--and he grew into a fast, quick-witted red fox whose abilities became legend among the forest's hunters. Other foxes avoid the hunt. Not Vulpes. He relishes leading men and hounds on hopeless chases across the countryside, slipping away at the last moment. But one day, Vulpes meets his match, coming face to face with a hunter as wily as he is. But the hunter has a gun.… (meer)

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My Side of the Mountain (#1) door Jean Craighead George

Runaway Sam Gribley is surviving in the Catskill Mountains with only a penknife, a ball of cord, $40, and some flint and steel. Along the way, he learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that will change his life forever.

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