Saving Winslow: An Excerpt and Interview with Sharon Creech

I’ve always taken a great interest in observing how publishers promote children’s books by longstanding, award-winning authors. Consider the case of Sharon Creech. Sure, she won the Newbery Medal for Walk Two Moons, the Newbery Honor for The Wanderer, and the Carnegie Medal for Ruby Holler, but as any writer will tell you, true children’s book authors don’t rest on their laurels. This puts her publisher, Harper Collins, in an interesting position. They could offer a blogger, like myself, the...