LoveReading4Kids Says
Award-winning Sharon Creech has an exceptional ability to write tenderly. In this touching modern fairy story she captures the rewards of love freely given to children. When John and Marta find a little boy asleep on their porch one morning they have no idea who has left him there. Nonetheless, they set about looking after him and name him Jacob. Jacob doesn’t speak but he communicates in other ways especially through music and art. As the weeks and months pass, John and Marta grow to love Jacob more and more. But they always know that he is not truly theirs. When Jacob is reclaimed Marta and John put their love into caring for other children. Their happiness grows and the children flourish and one day they are sure Jacob will return.
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The Boy on the Porch Synopsis
A young couple wakes up to find a strange boy asleep on their porch. At first they don't expect him to stay, but stay he does, and as the couple's connection to him grows, the three of them blossom into an unlikely family. But where has he come from and to whom does he belong?
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9781783440863 |
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5th June 2014 |
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Sharon Creech |
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Andersen Press Ltd |
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Paperback |
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151 pages |
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Sharon Creech Press Reviews
A thoughtful story about the emotions of parenting and how children can bring joy to your life. -- Vanessa Lewis Booksellers Choice, The Bookseller
A poignant look at families and love from Carnegie Medal winner Creech -- Fiona Noble Editor's Choice, The Bookseller
Compelling, the suspense surrounding Jacob’s origins and his future makes it
a page-turner for readers of any age Publisher’s Weekly
About Sharon Creech
Known for writing with a classic voice and unique style, Sharon Creech is the best-selling author of the Newbery Medal winner Walk Two Moons, and the Newbery Honor Book The Wanderer. She is also the first American in history to be awarded the CILIP Carnegie Medal for Ruby Holler.
Her other works include the novels Love That Dog, Bloomability, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Chasing Redbird, and Pleasing the Ghost, and two picture books: A Fine, Fine School and Fishing in the Air. These stories are often centered around life, love, and relationships, especially family relationships. Ms. Creech's first novel for children, Absolutely Normal Chaos, was based on her own "rowdy and noisy" family. Growing up in a big family in Cleveland, Ohio, helped Ms. Creech learn to tell stories that wouldn't be forgotten in all of the commotion: "I learned to exaggerate and embellish, because if you didn't, your story was drowned out by someone else's more exciting one."
With a knack for storytelling and love of reading, a young Ms. Creech aspired to become a novelist: "To be able to create other worlds, to be able to explore mystery and myth, I couldn't imagine a better way to live. . .except perhaps to be a teacher, because teachers got to handle books all day long."
In college, Ms. Creech took her first writing courses and attended writing workshops. This renewed her enthusiasm for becoming a novelist. Following her studies in college and graduate school, Ms. Creech worked as an editorial assistant before deciding to become a teacher overseas. Now, after spending eighteen years teaching and writing in Europe, she and her husband have returned to the United States to live.
She and her husband now live in Maine, near a farm where her teenage granddaughter raises sheep.
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