National Park. They haunted me for a year or more as did the words of one of the scientists at the lab: 'If there ever was any doubt in my mind that a man could live with the wolves, it is gone now. The wolves are truly gentlemen, highly social and affectionate.'" George won the annual Newbery Medal from the American Library Association for Julie, recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". She also won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1975 for its German-language edition Julie von den Wölfen, one of only two such double wins (with Scott O'Dell and Island of the Blue Dolphins). George was a mother of three and a grandmother. The 2009 Dutton Children's Books Pocket Guide to the Outdoors is credited to "Jean Craighead George; with Twig C. George, John C. George, and T. Luke George". Daughter Twig C. George had previously written a few children's books about animals. Over the years, 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." Jean died on May 15, 2012, at the age of 92 from complications of congestive heart failure, according to Twig George, at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla. Works 1948 Vulpes the Red Fox (American Woodland Tales series, with husband John L. George, illustrated by Jean George) 1949 Vison the Mink (American Woodland Tales series, with John L. George, illustrated by Jean George) 1950 Masked Prowler, The Story of a Raccoon (American Woodland Tales series, with John L. George, illustrated by Jean George) 1952 Meph, the Pet Skunk (American Woodland Tales series, with John L. George, illustrated by Jean George) 1954 Bubo, the Great Horned Owl (American Woodland Tales series, with John L. George, illustrated by Jean George) 1956 Dipper of Copper Creek (American Woodland Tales series, with John L. George, illustrated by Jean George) 1957 The Hole in the Tree (as by Jean George, writer and illustrator) 1958 Snow Tracks (as by Jean George, writer and illustrator) 1959 My Side of the Mountain (Mountain series #1, as by Jean Craighead George, writer and illustrator) () 1962 The Summer of the