Jean Craighead George

Jean Craighead George was born in a family of naturalists. Her father, mother, brothers, aunts and uncles were students of nature. On weekends they camped in the woods near their Washington, D.C. home, climbed trees to study owls, gathered edible plants and made fish hooks from twigs. Her first pet was a turkey vulture. In third grade she began writing and hasn't stopped yet. She has written over 100 books. Her book, Julie of the Wolves won the prestigious Newbery Medal, the American Library Association's award for the most distinguished contribution to literature for children, l973. [Read more]

Julie of the Wolves
The Trumpet Club, 1972 (PhP 40.00)
Winner of the Newberry Medal. Alone and lost--on the North Slope of Alska Miyax rebels against a home situation she finds intolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward her penpal, who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she comes to love them as if they were her brothers. With their help, and drawing on her father's taining, she struggles day by day to survive. In the process, she is forced to rethink her past and to define for herself the traditional riches of Eskimo life: intelligence, fearlessness, and love.