#Jean Craighead George

[cedarbookhs]

One of my favourite micro-genres, especially growing up, was books about kids or teens running away from home and living in unusual places. Some of these are more serious and involve leaving abusive homes. Others, the home life and excuse for leaving is entirely perfunctory and the adventure is the point. The common theme is that the kid leaves voluntarily (isn’t stranded somewhere, but goes there specifically) and then ends up living independently in some unique setting that gives the story a large part of its identity.

My Side of the Mountain — inside a tree in the Catskills

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler — the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maniac Magee — inside a buffalo house in the zoo, in a baseball stadium, and more

The Invention of Hugo Cabret — a grand Parisian train station

notabookbut The Kings of Summer — a homemade shanty in the Ohio woods

Last Sam’s Cage — the Calgary Zoo

The Boxcar Children — a freight car

Suggest more if you can think of any, I know there are lots of other examples.

[lesserknowncryptids]

Today's lesser known cryptid is: The Owl in the Shower

[book0ftheday]

The Big Book for Peace edited by Ann Durrell and Marilyn Sachs, cover illustration by Maurice Sendak; illustration from The Dream by Stephen Kellogg; illustration from The Bird's Peace by Jean Craig Head George, illustrated by Ted Rand. Printed 1990.

[bones-n-bookles]

My Side of the Mountain, written and illustrated by Jean Craighead George, 1959

Another childhood favorite of mine. I still dream of living in a hollowed out redwood tree

[bookcoversonly]

Title: There's an Owl in the Shower | Author: Jean Craighead George | Publisher: HarperCollins (2019)

[rachel-sylvan-author]

“No reader will be immune to the compulsion to go right out and start whittling fishhooks and befriending raccoons.” THIS is what Jean Craighead George hoped to accomplish through "My Side of the Mountain." So go! Whittle that fishhook! Hug that raccoon!... okay, don't do that - you might get rabies - but still!

[one-with-the-tree]

#50 Vulpes

Book name: Vulpes, the Red Fox Author: Jean Craighead George, John George

I really couldn't get into this book but again I did want to design at least one character from it. So here's Vulpes. 

Lineart by Northernred (DeviantArt)

[josephconrads]

Title: Frightful’s Mountain

Author: Jean Craighead George

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Review: The last in the trilogy I wasn’t expecting much as I hadn’t enjoyed the previous novel. While it started off slow in the beginning, seeming more recap of past events then entirely new story, it did manage to grasp my attention. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when the past two novels had been focused on Sam’s story while this was Frightful’s but it was written in a way that felt natural to the conclusion of the trilogy. I will say it was slow going multiple times throughout but all in all I eventually found it enjoyable. Wouldn’t say I’m the target audience so it might be more enjoyable to younger elementary school age readers.

[uovoc]

what sets My Side of the Mountain and Julie of the Wolves apart from other environmental fiction is the acknowledgment of the death of the past. There's nostalgia for the ecology and culture of the pre-settlement world, but instead of condemning the present in favor of reverting to the past, they end on mourning the past in order to move into the future. Legend of Hei does it as well: We can't go back to the way we were, but we can still live well

[beyondthedustjacket]

BOOK AESTHETICS — BOOKS I’VE READ

The Julie of the Wolves Trilogy by Jean Craighead George

[roseunspindle]

Books with “G” Authors I Own and and Need to Read Part 1

[reviews-sky-1]

New book review!

Vulpes the Red Fox by Jean Craighead George and John L. George

Link

[marmilrew]

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

[iamthepulta]

I've actually been scrounging for an ending to Ellenville, because it's hard to actually 'end' a tragedy with something that feels complete, and that last post hit me with yeah, that's right. Because we live in a world where blood is protection and the cost of safety; and it fits in so neatly with the themes of death as stasis and longevity.

The 'end' is the regulations in place. Not even watching it happen, but success. This is The Pushcart War but epic fantasy.

[bones-n-bookles]

Julie of the Wolves Treasury, by Jean Craighead George

Contains Julie of the Wolves (1972, illustrated by John Schoenherr), Julie (1994, illustrated by Wendell Minor), and Julie's Wolf Pack (1997, illustrated by Wendell Minor) all in one book! It contains all of the same art of the individual books I believe, but I don't currently have an individual copy of Julie of the Wolves so can't verify that.

[blujayonthewing]

hi. why did I fucking get this