Jean Craighead George, 1919-2012 (page 2)

Cover art for THE MOON OF THE WINTER BIRD

CHILDREN'S

Released: Jan. 19, 1970

illustrated by Vincent Nasta, by Jean Craighead George

"Looser and less obviously useful than some of its predecessors, this has nevertheless a unique lesson: out of his element the sparrow retains his sense of the seasonal cycle."

The song sparrow in the Ohio dooryard in December has become a winter bird inadvertently: "his inner signal (to migrate) had not functioned." Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: Oct. 1, 1970

BEASTLY INVENTIONS

by Jean Craighead George

Every animal is an astonishment" and science, continually, "opens new doors on earth" and this catchall of curiosities in the animal world contains many amazing small items that Mrs. George has apparently been collecting for years. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: Feb. 18, 1971

ALL UPON A STONE

by Jean Craighead George, illustrated by Don Bolognese

"Nonetheless and not the least, there is the mole cricket's plaintive crackling."

Fundamental, and fertile per se, is the idea of a single rock as a micro-environment: threaded through, in effect supplying a plot line, is the compulsive search of a mole cricket for another of his kind — a search that climaxes, after many creatures have been bypassed, in a primal outcry ("He crackled his loneliness. Read full book review >

Cover art for WHO REALLY KILLED COCK ROBIN?

CHILDREN'S

Released: Oct. 1, 1971

WHO REALLY KILLED COCK ROBIN?

by Jean Craighead George

"The tone of the whole adventure is buoyant, and the ecological complexities that constitute its theme are so neatly reflected in the plot that the scientific search for Cock Robin's murderer has an edge-of-the-chair excitement."

The web of life is revealed in all its intricacy when Tony Isidoro, an eighth grader who has inherited the zoology project interrupted by his older brother's call to army service, works with the local mill owner's 12-year-old daughter, and later with his brother's zoologist friend from the college, to solve a murder that has baffled and grieved the town of Saddleboro. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: Nov. 10, 1972

JULIE OF THE WOLVES

illustrated by John Schoenherr, by Jean Craighead George

"Though remarkable Miyax and her experience are totally believable, her spirit living evidence of the magnitude of the loss."

Running away from an arranged marriage with simpleminded Donald, thirteen year-old Julie (she prefers Miyax, her Eskimo name) survives on the barren tundra by making friends with a family of wolves. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: Sept. 30, 1974

ALL UPON A SIDEWALK

by Jean Craighead George, illustrated by Don Bolognese

"We would prefer more explanation of the "chemical messages" and fewer exclamation marks denoting ecstasy or panic, but there seems to be a niche for this sort of nature writing."

We'll never understand why so many competent juvenile authors choose to write about ants, those most unindividualized of creatures, in terms of the adventures of one individual — who is often referred to by her species name (here Lasius flavus) as if it's her own personal one. Read full book review >

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