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The summer of the falcon / by Jean Craighead George ; illustrated by the author.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 1850
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Falcons--Juvenile fiction.
- Falcons.
- Adolescence--Juvenile fiction.
- Adolescence.
- Families--Juvenile fiction.
- Families.
- Families--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 153 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : J.M. Dent and Sons, 1964.
- Summary:
- In the fields surrounding the wonderful Victorian house where her family spent the summers, June Pritchard trained her sparrow hawk, Zander. The bird was her own, a gift from her brothers who had trained their own falcons and who encouraged June to develop her bird as a hunter - not a pet.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 30256019
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