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I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

Jean Craighead George

When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.

Jean Craighead George

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

Jean Craighead George

I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light. It cracked and snapped and smoked and filled the woods with brightness. It lighted the trees and made them warm and friendly. It stood tall and bright and held back the night.

Jean Craighead George

There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.

Jean Craighead George

The dog wags its tail only at living things.
A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile,
is bestowed upon people, dogs, cats, squirrels,
even mice and butterflies. - but no lifeless
things. A dog won't wag its tail to its dinner
or to a bed, card, stick, or even a bone.

Jean Craighead George

Jean Craighead George

Jean Craighead George

Born: July 2, 1919

Died: May 15, 2012 (aged 92)

Bio: Jean Carolyn Craighead George was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and Newbery runner-up My Side of the Mountain.

Known for:

My Side of the Mountain (1959)
Julie of the Wolves (1972)
Julie's Wolf Pack (1997)
Frightful's mountain (1999)
The missing 'gator of Gumbo Limbo (1992)

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