Julie of the Wolves
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. Pictures by John Schoenherr. Early printing. Publisher's illustrated glazed boards, in dust jacket ($4.95). Lightly rolled spine foot, else fine in near fine, corner-clipped dust jacket with several short closed tears to edges, in mylar cover. Item #237693
NATURALISM AND CHILDREN'S LIT MEET IN THE TUNDRA
Raised by naturalists, the outdoors touched every part of Jean Craighead George's life, including her writing. Her summer spent studying wolves at the Arctic Research Laboratory inspired her 1973 Newberry Award Winner, painting her imagination with the image of a lone Eskimo girl and a wolf walking across glacial fields. Awarded for its sensitivity and exploration of modernization, Miyax/Julie's story whirls readers through the turbulent mind of a girl who goes to find a place she can truly belong to and ends up lost in the tundra.
This early printing is inscribed by George on the ffep.
Price: $225.00