Jean Craighead George, 1919-2012

CHILDREN'S

Released: Oct. 15, 1962

illustrated by Jean Craighead George

"The views of falconry are exciting and one wishes there were more of Zander and less of June."

A somewhat tipsy song in praise of the raptures and rough spots in adolescent girlhood with a falcon named Zander bearing the brunt of the symbolism. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: Jan. 14, 1965

SPRING COMES TO THE OCEAN

by Jean Craighead George

"The author has captured and conveyed a sense of the simultaneity of ocean life and the awesome variety of its creatures."

Starting with a hermit crab off the coast of Florida warmed into desperate house hunting activity by the gradually increasing heat of the springtime sunshine, the talented author follows the coastline all around the United States to show what else is new under the sea at that time of year. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: Sept. 16, 1966

HOLD ZERO

by Jean Craighead George

"Over."

Craig Sutton and three of his equally enterprising young friends three-stage booster rocket in a small New York state town. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: March 15, 1968

COYOTE IN MANHATTAN

by Jean Craighead George

"A last-minute carlift by Tenny and Puerto Rican pal Jose (who gives up a chance to "get away from 109th Street and all the poverty") takes him to the Adirondacks and a new lease on life—a fittingly unlikely ending to a preposterous story."

Coyote in Manhattan = insurrection in Harlem, consternation on Fifth Avenue and headaches for the Board of Health. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: Aug. 15, 1969

THE MOON OF THE DEER

by Jean Craighead George, illustrated by Sal Catalano

"But it does register the effects of the storm quite thoroughly and may be useful on that account."

The September moon brings a restless combativeness to the young spike buck; it also brings a hurricane to his Connecticut tidal marsh, and though we see him torn between the urge to fight his eight-point elder and a self-protective fear, it is his survival of the storm, and the response of the other shore creatures, that is the focal point here. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: Jan. 19, 1970

THE MOON OF THE MOLES

by Jean Craighead George, illustrated by Michael Rothman

"Vividly informative—a remark that encompasses the potent pen drawings also."

In his seven-month life the male mole has dug four miles of runways-based on five major tunnel-routes—but he has "never been out of the soil"; he has not seen the light nor is he affected by day and night, living instead on a ten-hour cycle set by his body-needs: five hours to search for food, five to sleep. Read full book review >

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Jean Craighead George, 1919-2012