Spring Moon

Seasons of the Moon #3

by Jean Craighead George

Follow a salamander into a woodland pond where he and a mate perform an ancestral mating dance. Watch for predators with a new mother chickaree who is trying to protect her young. Look through the eyes of a monarch butterfly as she travels north to her birthplace in Canada. In this series, acclaimed naturalist and Newbery Medal-winning author Jean Craighead George takes readers on a wondrous journey through each season of the year as she captures the lives of thirteen different North American animals in their natural habitats.

112 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2002

About the author

Jean Craighead George wrote over eighty popular books for young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and the Newbery Honor book My Side of the Mountain. Most of her books deal with topics related to the environment and the natural world. While she mostly wrote children's fiction, she also wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods, and an autobiography, Journey Inward.

The mother of three children, (Twig C. George, Craig, and T. Luke George) Jean George was a grandmother who joyfully read to her grandchildren since the time they were born. Over the years Jean George kept one hundred and seventy-three pets, not including dogs and cats, in her home in Chappaqua, New York. "Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behaviour and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories."

Reviews

[Cat_on_skates · Rating 5 out of 5]

The chickaree moon is the best one in this wonderful volume of nature narrative stories.

[TJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

loved reading about the nature events of the different moons