Children’s author to deliver Zolotow lecture

Jean Craighead George will deliver the annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture Wednesday, Sept. 27.

Highly acclaimed for her writing about the natural world, she has been awarded a Newbery honor for her book “My Side of the Mountain,” and the Newbery Medal for “Julie of the Wolves.”

Most recently, she has continued writing about nature, including several books for younger children, such as “Look to the North: A Wolf Pup Diary” and “Morning, Noon, and Night,” a tribute to the natural landscape of North America. George’s lecture is entitled “Words for the Young Child.”

The lecture will start at 7:30 p.m. in the Wisconsin Union Theater, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.

The Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a library of the School of Education, each year brings a distinguished children’s book author or illustrator to the campus to deliver a free public lecture. Established in 1998, the lecture was named to honor Charlotte Zolotow, a distinguished children’s book editor for 38 years with Harper Junior Books, and author of more than 65 picture books. Zolotow attended UW–Madison on a writing scholarship from 1933-36, and studied with professor Helen C. White.