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| Lenona... |
 Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:37 am |
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She lives in Chappaqua, New York and has written more than 100 books
since 1948, including "My Side of the Mountain," which was filmed in
1969.
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=talkbackCommentsFull&talk_back_header_id=6608033&articleid=CA6667992
(article about today's birthday, with interview, a 1:15 video, and
comments underneath)
www.jeancraigheadgeorge.com/
www.jeancraigheadgeorge.com/bio.html
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-george-jean.asp
(another bio and long interview from 2003)
http://www.bookpage.com/0205bp/jean_craighead_george.html
(2002 interview)
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Jean+Craighead+George&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
(two more short videos from 2007 and 2008)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Craighead_George
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0313469/
(filmography)
From her Q & A:
Q: My Side of the Mountain has always been one of my favorite books.
What inspired you to write it?
A: Let me tell you why I wrote My Side of the Mountain. When I was a
kid, my father, who was an entomologist and ecologist, took my
brothers and me into the wilderness along the Potomac River near
Washington, D. C., our home. He taught us the plants and animals,
where to find wild asparagus and other edible plants. We made lean-tos
to sleep in, fished with our own homemade fish hooks and basswood
fiber lines and trained falcons. My brothers were two of the first
falconers in the United States and gave me a falcon to train when I
was thirteen. It was a glorious childhood.
When I became a writer I wanted to tell about those wonderful days. I
wrote eight books before I saw a way to get Sam out in the wilderness
without the park rangers or his family coming to get him. He would
tell his Dad he was going to go to the family farm in the Catskill
Mountains. Then I put myself in Sam's head and began to write using my
own adventures, including eating all those delicious foods .
I have written the sequel, On The Far Side of the Mountain . When I
started it my daughter Twig said, "Put a girl in this book." and I
asked, "Who?" Her answer was, "One of Sam's sisters. and make her just
like my independent little girl, Katie." And that's what I did after
spending a summer in the Catskill and Helderberg Mountains studying
the plants, animals and trails.
Q: How did you get the idea to write Julie of the Wolves?
A: The idea for the book struck me when I was in Barrow, Alaska, on an
assignment for a national magazine. Barrow is the land of the midnight
sun, of sea ice and Eskimos, of caribou and polar bears -- and of
wolves.
When I arrived the scientists at the Barrow Arctic Research Lab were
studying wolves and breaking their communication code. A few men were
talking to them in their own language with posturing, whimpers and
various actions. I was fascinated; and eventually was able to learn
how to talk "wolf' and communicate with a beautiful female in her own
"language." When she answered back, I knew that I wanted to write a
book about a little girl, who is lost on the tundra and saves her life
by communicating with the wolves. So I did........
Lenona. |
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| Cori... |
| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:36 pm |
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Love her stuff, hope she had a great one!
Cori |
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