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My Side of the Mountain is a middle-grade adventure novel written and illustrated by American writer Jean Craighead George published by E. P. Dutton in 1959. [1] It features a boy who learns courage, independence, and the need for companionship while attempting to live in the Catskill Mountains of New York State.
The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain is a 1995 novel by Christopher Monger. The book, narrated by the author, is claimed to be based on a story heard by him from his grandfather about the real village of Taff's Well , in the old county of Glamorgan, and its neighbouring Garth Hill .
The book grew out of the annual climbing course run since 1935 by the Mountaineers, for which the reading material was originally a combination of European works and lecturers' mimeo outlines. These were assembled into the Climber's Notebook and published by the Mountaineers as the hardbound Mountaineers Handbook in 1948.
The next day, the entire village mills around the mountain, eagerly anticipating the results. The cartographers announce that the more accurate measurements indicate a height of 984 feet, just 16 feet short of qualifying the "hill" as a mountain at 1,000 feet (305 m). The townsfolk are crestfallen and hold a town hall meeting.
The Shepherd of the Hills is a book written in 1907 by author Harold Bell Wright and illustrated by Frank G. Cootes. [1] It depicts a mostly fictional story of mountain folklore and forgiveness, and has been translated into seven languages since its release.
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The first version with the title "The Little Engine That Could" appeared in 1920 in the U.S., in Volume 1 of My Book House, a set of books sold door-to-door. [2] This version began: "Once there was a Train-of-Cars; she was flying across the country with a load of Christmas toys for the children who lived on the other side of the mountain". [2]
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