#Jean Craighead George
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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.
#my side of the mountain#jean craighead george#from the mixed up files of Mrs basil e frankweiler#el konigsburg#maniac Magee#jerry spinelli#the invention of hugo Cabret#brian selznick#the kings of summer#last sam’s cage#David a poulsen#the boxcar children
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Today's lesser known cryptid is: The Owl in the Shower
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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.
#childrens anthologies#children's storybooks#peaceful tales#maurice sendak#stephen kellogg#ted rand#ann durrell#marilyn sachs#jean craighead george#illustration
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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
#my library#My Side of the Mountain#Jean Craighead George#1959#1950s#kids book#i know he lived in a hemlock but i grew up in cali where we had redwoods instead#i need to get copies of the rest of these books again tbh#also i always HATED the ending of this book#i hated all the books where a kid went feral and then returned home or invited home into their new feral home#like i love these books so dearly#but the endings made me so angry and sad#anyways lmao
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Title: There's an Owl in the Shower | Author: Jean Craighead George | Publisher: HarperCollins (2019)
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“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!
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#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)
#xenofiction#vulpes the red fox#fox#foxes#red fox#jean craighead george#john george#xenofiction design project#vulpes
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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.
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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
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Books with “G” Authors I Own and and Need to Read Part 1
#Authors#Booklr#tbr shelf shaming#Diana Gabaldon#Sarah Gailey#Neil Gaiman#Stephanie Garber#Craig Shaw Gardner#A.C. Gaughen#David Gemmell#Jean Craighead George#Jessica Day George#Lexi George
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New book review!
Vulpes the Red Fox by Jean Craighead George and John L. George
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My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
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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.
#ellenville#ptxt#Jean Merrill is up there with Jean Craighead George for the imprinting I did on Pushcart War and Toothpaste Millionaire.#Which is ironic as FUCK because my curriculum definitely wanted me to take away 'You can be entrepreneurial too! Which is killing big truck#And undercutting big toothpaste business by packing yours in sterilized baby jars!' when I actually took away what Merrill#wanted which was: 'Hey isn't it fucked up that large companies think they can push you around and we need a capitalist underdog#success story to feel happy about our lives and role in the ongoing oligarchy of capitalism?'#Homeschooling with sonlight was fucking wild. I read so many good books as a kid and credit it to the fact I grew up with empathy#But it also meant I grew up with States Rights narratives and libertarian propaganda I had to unlearn.#Total aside because this is a tag essay anyway and I don't want to make a new post: I found out my advisor was also homeschooled#Which is probably why we're the exact same person I'm just 12 years behind them without the accent. My own brother almost#mistook them for me from behind and he gets pissy about it lol. 'There are two of them now!'#BUT I SWEAR I'M NOT COPYING THEM. WE JUST HAPPEN TO HAVE THE EXACT SAME HISTORICAL INTERESTS AND#SLAVISH DEVOTION TO GEOLOGY THAT TRANSFORMED INTO THE APPLICATIONS OF GEOLOGY AS A SCIENCE.#In my defense they have a much broader and recent focus on geology: usually for the impact of mining/geology on historical events.#Whereas I like the economic and logistical side of things. Like who hated who because they had beef over the same mines Nitrate War style
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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.
#my library#Julie of the Wolves Treasury#Jean Craighead George#John Schoenherr#Wendell Minor#wolf book#kids book#im not actually sure when i got this book?? ik the next handful of books are all childhood books but i dont remember this one until like.#it just appears in my memory/collection during high school#Julie of the Wolves#Julie#Julie's Wolf Pack#1972#1970s#1994#1997#1990s
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BOOK AESTHETICS — BOOKS I’VE READ
The Julie of the Wolves Trilogy by Jean Craighead George
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