My Side of the Mountain Trilogy by Jean Craighead George

A few men were talking to them in their own language with posturing, whimpers and various actions. When my son Luke and I arrived the scientists at the Barrow Arctic Research Lab were studying wolves and breaking their communication code. Barrow is the land of the midnight sun, of sea ice and Eskimos, of caribou and polar bears - and of wolves. The idea for the book struck me when I was in Barrow, Alaska, on an assignment for a national magazine. How did you get the idea to write Julie of the Wolves? When I started it my daughter Twig said, 'Put a girl in this book.' and I asked, 'Who?' Her answer was, 'One of Sam's sisters, and make her just like my independent little girl, Caity.' And that's what I did after spending a summer in the Catskill and Helderberg Mountains studying the plants, animals and trails. I have written the sequel, On The Far Side of the Mountain. Then I put myself in Sam's head and began to write using my own adventures, including eating all those delicious foods. He would tell his Dad he was going to go to the family farm in the Catskill Mountains. I wrote eight books before I saw a way to get Sam out in the wilderness without the park rangers or his family coming to get him. When I became a writer I wanted to tell about those wonderful days. My brothers were two of the first falconers in the United States and gave me a falcon to train when I was thirteen. We made lean-tos to sleep in, fished with our own homemade fish hooks and basswood fiber lines and trained falcons.

He taught us the plants and animals, where to find wild asparagus and other edible plants.

When I was a kid, my father, who was an entomologist and ecologist, took my brothers and me into the wilderness along the Potomac River near Washington, D. Let me tell you why I wrote My Side of the Mountain.

My Side of the Mountain Trilogy by Jean Craighead George