What did you do last November 2? All Souls' Day in Christianity is a day annually commemorating those who are believed to have faithfully departed to Heaven with God and the holy angels, particularly but not exclusively one's relatives and friends, by visiting cemeteries and praying for the dead. It is usually associated as an extension of the observance of All Saints' Day which is on the 1st of November.
This month, we're featuring an award-winning writer whose book called The Unfinished Angel published in 2009 narrates the story of a mystical being helping a Swiss village community with a small, talkative, and determined American girl named Zola.
This author often often uses humour to soften serious topics that she likes embedding into her stories including themes such as independence, trust, childhood, adulthood, and death.
Sharon Creech was born in Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents (Ann and Arvel), one sister (Sandy), and three brothers (Dennis, Doug, and Tom). She often used to visit her cousins in Quincy, Kentucky which has found its way into many of her books as a fictional Bybanks, Kentucky.
She became intrigued by story-telling after taking literature and writing courses during college in the U.S. Sharon later became a teacher of secondary school English and Writing in England and Switzerland where she also immersed herself in re-learning Italian (the language of southern Switzerland) which influenced the way the angel strangely and comically spoke while she was writing the story at that time.
She has written both novels and picture books. Her first children's novel Absolutely Normal Chaos was published only in the U.K. in 1990. Sharon's first book published in the U.S. was Walk Two Moons (1994) which won the prestigious Newbery Medal in 1995. Later that year, Absolutely Normal Chaos was finally published in the U.S. She returned to the U.S. in 1998 after 18 years abroad.
She is currently married to Lyle Rigg, a headmaster in New Jersey and they live in Maine. The couple has 2 grown children, Rob and Karin.
This month, we're featuring an award-winning writer whose book called The Unfinished Angel published in 2009 narrates the story of a mystical being helping a Swiss village community with a small, talkative, and determined American girl named Zola.This author often often uses humour to soften serious topics that she likes embedding into her stories including themes such as independence, trust, childhood, adulthood, and death.
Sharon Creech was born in Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents (Ann and Arvel), one sister (Sandy), and three brothers (Dennis, Doug, and Tom). She often used to visit her cousins in Quincy, Kentucky which has found its way into many of her books as a fictional Bybanks, Kentucky.
She became intrigued by story-telling after taking literature and writing courses during college in the U.S. Sharon later became a teacher of secondary school English and Writing in England and Switzerland where she also immersed herself in re-learning Italian (the language of southern Switzerland) which influenced the way the angel strangely and comically spoke while she was writing the story at that time.
She has written both novels and picture books. Her first children's novel Absolutely Normal Chaos was published only in the U.K. in 1990. Sharon's first book published in the U.S. was Walk Two Moons (1994) which won the prestigious Newbery Medal in 1995. Later that year, Absolutely Normal Chaos was finally published in the U.S. She returned to the U.S. in 1998 after 18 years abroad.
She is currently married to Lyle Rigg, a headmaster in New Jersey and they live in Maine. The couple has 2 grown children, Rob and Karin.
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