George S. Elrick (1921–1997)
Author of Lassie: Adventure in Alaska
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Not to be confused with George Elrick, the Scottish musician (1903-1999)
Works by George S. Elrick
Lassie Old One-Eye 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Elrick, George Seefurth
- Birthdate
- 1921-10-07
- Date of death
- 1997-12-29
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Northwestern University
- Occupations
- children's book author
screenwriter - Relationships
- Elrick, Marilyn (wife)
- Short biography
- [excerpted from Chicago Tribune online obituary]
Mr. Elrick wrote 38 books, including several "Little Golden Books" for children. Lassie was among his favorite characters, and Spider-Man was close behind, said his wife, Marilyn Elrick. Mrs. Elrick said her husband was drawn to children's books because he had a rapport with kids.
Mr. Elrick also wrote the Science Fiction Handbook for Readers and Writers, published by Chicago Review Press, and wrote for the Wild Kingdom television series. Occasionally, he taught a class on "How to Write a Novel" for area residents in the basement of his Glenview home.
A graduate of Northwestern University, he lived in Glenview for 39 years and recently moved to Mt. Prospect. - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Places of residence
- Glenview, Illinois, USA
Mt. Prospect, Illinois, USA - Place of death
- Highland Park, Illinois, USA
- Disambiguation notice
- Not to be confused with George Elrick, the Scottish musician (1903-1999)
- Associated Place (for map)
- Illinois, USA
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Reviews
Let's see, man-eating hyenas, human sacrifices, poisoned arrows, killer apes, and enough focus on bulging, rippling muscles to fuel a couple of homoerotic novels. Best children's book ever!! :)
Horribly dated and limited by its subject matter (sci-fi regardless of quality), this book compiles the terms, places, events, and characters of sci-fi books into one volume. It can be enjoyed for its undeniable thoroughness (limited only by its publication date of 1978) or for the ironic humor of entries like, "ego decimator. (Fiction.) A Uranian torture device that destroys will power via painful psychological whittling." A treasure in my collection.
The book was ok. My son Matthew thought of me when he was out to get it, so that ups the value as I will always think of it as a gift from my boy. Story is in Alaska and has elements of wolves, a wolverine, a frozen mammoth, and the main character trapped by a rock from an earthquake.
It is 'A Big Little Book' published in 1967 with text on one side of a page and a picture on the other. Cute little size, but turning the 248 pages to get through the short story got tiring for me.
My favorite show more unrealistic Lassie skill in the book was that he was able to keep getting wood and feed it to the fire to keep it going while his master slept. That would be a neat trick.
Overall it was a book to look at and say, 'what a cute book' and then go and get another book instead. show less
It is 'A Big Little Book' published in 1967 with text on one side of a page and a picture on the other. Cute little size, but turning the 248 pages to get through the short story got tiring for me.
My favorite show more unrealistic Lassie skill in the book was that he was able to keep getting wood and feed it to the fire to keep it going while his master slept. That would be a neat trick.
Overall it was a book to look at and say, 'what a cute book' and then go and get another book instead. show less
Based on a line of toys issued by Mattel, this is a story of the early days of Lunar colonization. Since it's a "Big Little Book", all the text appears on the left-hand page with a full page color illustration on the facing page. The illustrations are by Dan Spiegle, and are much in the same style as his art for the Gold Key Comics, "Space Family Robinson: Lost in Space".
The story features hardware from the, generally realistic, Mattel Major Matt Mason line but also such reasonable elements show more as domed hydroponic gardens.
There's one mad touch: artificially grown giant rabbits - which are, inexplicably, capable of surviving on the Lunar surface. But, overall, it's rather fun, giant moon worms and all. show less
The story features hardware from the, generally realistic, Mattel Major Matt Mason line but also such reasonable elements show more as domed hydroponic gardens.
There's one mad touch: artificially grown giant rabbits - which are, inexplicably, capable of surviving on the Lunar surface. But, overall, it's rather fun, giant moon worms and all. show less
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