Jean Craighead George (1919–2012)
Författare till My Side of the Mountain
Om författaren
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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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Serier
Verk av Jean Craighead George
Exploring Adventure Fiction: Wonderful Wizard of Oz/On the Far Side of the Mountain (1992) 21 exemplar
Scylla 3 exemplar
My Side Of The Mountain Experiencing Literature in the Classroom Teaching Guide Lesson Plans (1990) 2 exemplar
Arctic Son (DVD) 2 exemplar
Das Grosse Reader's Digest Tierbuch 1 exemplar
Geschichte der Antike in Stichworten 1 exemplar
Journeys 1 exemplar
Marvels & Mysteries of Our Aminal World 1 exemplar
Scylla the Humpback Whale 1 exemplar
The Gorilla Gang 1 exemplar
Wentletrap Trap 1 exemplar
Reading Guide to My Side of the Mountain 1 exemplar
There's an Owel in the Shower 1 exemplar
ONE DAY IN THE ALPINE TUNDRA 1 exemplar
ONE DAY IN THE DESERT 1 exemplar
One Day on the Prairie 1 exemplar
La casa nell'albero 1 exemplar
Ingen titel 1 exemplar
El fabuloso reino animal 1 exemplar
Books 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
A Newbery Zoo: A dozen animal stories by Newbery Award-winning authors (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 30 exemplar
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 1978 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- George, Jean Carolyn Craighead
- Födelsedag
- 1919-07-02
- Avled
- 2012-05-15
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Dödsort
- Valhalla, New York, USA
- Dödsorsak
- congestive heart failure
- Bostadsorter
- Chappaqua, New York, USA
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA - Utbildning
- Pennsylvania State University (BA|1941)
- Yrken
- journalist
author
editor
children's book author - Relationer
- George, Twig C. (daughter)
George, John L. (spouse)
George, Craig (son) - Organisationer
- Washington Post
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Newbery Honor Medal 1960
Newbery Medal 1973
Regina Medal (2003)
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1970s (1)
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Nifty Fifties (1)
Sonlight Books (3)
My Wishlist - YA (1)
Summer Reading (1)
4th Grade Books (1)
Ambleside Books (1)
Five star books (1)
1950s (1)
KID BOOKS (1)
Elevenses (2)
Read in 1999 (3)
Books About Boys (1)
6th Grade (1)
Spring Reading (1)
Overdue Podcast (1)
Newbery Adjacent (1)
Female Author (1)
Winter Books (1)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 147
- Även av
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- Medlemmar
- 45,538
- Popularitet
- #356
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 591
- ISBN
- 841
- Språk
- 13
- Favoritmärkt
- 20
- Proberstenar
- 388