Sharon Creech is an American who lived in England for 19 years and has now moved to New Jersey where her husband is the headmaster of an international school. She is the author of five children's novels, all published by Macmillan, including the acclaimed "Walk Two Moons", which won the Newbery Medal, the Children's Book Award, the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Book Award and was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize. "Chasing Redbird" was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year.