Publishers Weekly, July 16th, 2001
Sharon Creech opens the front door of her three-story, neo-Georgian, red-brick home and welcomes PW with a smile. She is dressed casually, in jeans and a dusty-pink cotton shirt. And she is wearing moccasins. Those familiar with Creech's Walk Two Moons, which received the 1995 Newbery Medal, know that the book's protagonist also wears moccasins; Salamanca Tree Hiddle's guiding mantra, in fact, is "Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins," In reality, this message came to the author in a fortune cookie, and it changed the course of the book--which in turn changed the ...
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