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Authors: Jean Craighead George

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Jean Craighead George and her Alaskan Malamute, Qimmiq, which means “dog” in Inupiat (an Eskimo language), during the 1990s. (Photo courtesy of Ellan Young.)

Jean Craighead George in the Lower Colville River, in Alaska, in 1995. Jean first traveled to Alaska in 1970, when she did research for her Newbery Award–winning novel
Julie of the Wolves.

Jean Craighead George’s home in Chappaqua, New York, in 1995. Jean has lived in Chappaqua for over fifty years.

Jean Craighead George in the Wyoming wilderness in 1999. Wherever Jean goes, she sketches and paints to record incidents and “feel” the details of a place.

Jean Craighead George and her family along the Yellow Breeches Creek in Craighead, Pennsylvania, in 1999. As a child, Jean spent her summers at Craighead Station with her father’s family. They fished, canoed, painted, made wildflower collections, swam, and played baseball.

Jean Craighead George in the Belize Rainforest in 1999, where a sky-walk bridge in the tops of the trees introduced her to a whole new world of wildlife. Jean traveled to many locations to study new plants and animals as research for her books.

Jean Craighead George circa 2001, feeding a wolf pup near the Bob Marshall Wilderness in western Montana.

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copyright © 1966 by Jean Craighead George

cover design by Connie Gabbert

978-1-4532-2332-1

This edition published in 2011 by Open Road Integrated Media

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