Soon a silver bird fluttered down from the sky and sat on his shoulder. "There is a place where you can go, where everything is _ " "Is what?" Dallas said. " _ where everything is magic," the bird ...

"Ruby Holler," Sharon Creech, Bloomsbury; 2002, 310 pp. How do you reform a pair of 13-year-old twins who spend every spare moment breaking, spilling, throwing or dropping things -- and cursing loudly ...

Sharon Creech has become the first American to win the CILIP Carnegie Medal for children's writing, for her book Ruby Holler. This also makes her the first author to win both the Carnegie and its US ...

Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech 320pp, Bloomsbury, £10.99 Sharon Creech, who won the Newbery Medal (the most important American children's book award) with Walk Two Moons, is a skilful storyteller, whose ...

The characters introduced here—two abandoned children, their villainous guardians and a kindly country couple—might have stepped out of a Dickens novel, but as Creech (Love that Dog) probes beneath ...