Originally published: San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
Jean Craighead George (1919–2012) began writing in the third grade. Her lifelong passion for nature led her to foster more than 170 wild animals as pets in her backyard, and many of these animals became characters in her novels. George won several awards for her books, including a Newbery Honor for My Side of the Mountain and a Newbery Medal for Julie of the Wolves.
