1336 N 31st, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was Jim and Edna Kjelgaard’s first home together after their marriage on July 15, 1939. Their only child, Karen, was born while they lived in Milwaukee. In an essay Karen wrote about her father she said, “…
A Jim Kjelgaard Bibliography: The Books Forest Patrol (Holiday House, 1941 / illustrated by Tony Palazzo)Rebel Siege (Holiday House, 1943 / illustrated by Charles Banks Wilson)Big Red (Holiday House, 1945 / illustrated by Bob Kuhn)Buckskin
1238 Palo Verde Drive in Phoenix, Arizona, was Jim Kjelgaard’s home from about 1952 until his death on July 12, 1959. Kjelgaard had been suffering from back pain, which was a lifelong ailment, and what his daughter, Karen, called “incipient…
This autobiographical essay by Jim Kjelgaard appeared in The Junior Book of Authors – Second Edition, Revised – edited by Stanley J. Kunitz & Howard Haycraft (H. W. Wilson Co., 1951). Kjelgaard notes, in the final paragraphs of the article,…
What they said… Wildlife Cameraman Wildlife Cameraman appeared in hardcover from New York’s Holiday House in April 1957. It was the first of four of Kjelgaard’s books to be illustrated by Sam Savitt. The others, all published after Kjelgaar…
Fire-Hunterby Jim KjelgaardIllustrated by Ralph Ray, Jr.Holiday House, Sep. 1951 Jim Kjelgaard’s eleventh novel, Fire-Hunter, is a fast-paced pre-historic adventure. Hawk, the Chief Spear-Maker of his tribe, is banished for defying tribal l…
Jim Kjelgaard’s second novel, Rebel Siege, appeared in September 1943 from Holiday House, a full two years after his first novel, Forest Patrol, was published. It was the first of two Kjelgaard novels illustrated by Charles Banks Wilson. Th…
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What they said… Chip, The Dam Builder Chip, the Dam Builder appeared in hardcover from New York’s Holiday House in Sep. 1950. It was the second of three of Kjelgaard’s books illustrated by Ralph Ray, Jr. The others were: Buckskin Brigade (1…
JIM KJELGAARD turned 31 the year his first novel, Forest Patrol, illustrated by Tony Palazzo, was published by Holiday House (1941). He had married Edna – Eddy – Dresden two years earlier and moved from Pennsylvania to Milwaukee where the c…