From: Elizabeth C Wright <ECWRIGHT>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 21:14 CDT

I was also lucky enough to attend Sharon Creech's talk last Sunday, and I was worried at first when she talked very candidly about _Walk Two Moons'_ development in the midst of editor and editorial changes. I feared that hearing all the gory details would break the book's spell over me, sort of like being backstage at a magic show.

Her talk had just the opposite effect. I reread _Walk Two Moons_ this week, and somehow I am more sure than ever that on a farm by a river in Bybanks, Kentucky lives a girl named Salamanca Tree Hiddle, who misses her mother and her gooseberry grandmother every day. The speech was a great reminder that these books we love so much can stand some scrutiny and discussion - and we may appreciate them more for it. It was also a great speech, period, because Sharon Creech is a thumping good storyteller.

Beth Wright Student School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison ecwright at macc.wisc.edu
Received on Thu 26 Oct 1995 09:14:00 PM CDT