Get Jean Craighead George Books Images. Jean craighead george author john schoenherr illustrator (2016). She always said she wanted to write up to the very last, and she did.
My side of the mountain (series).
Common themes in george's works are the environment and the natural world. Her respect for nature and its many creatures is evident in all of her writing. Her parents and extended family were naturalists, and she spent weekends during her childhood camping in 1940, george graduated from pennsylvania state university with degrees in both english and science. She became a reporter for the washington post.