Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo
Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo is an American writer of children's fiction for all reading levels, usually featuring animals. She is one of six people to win two Newbery Medals, recognizing her novels The Tale of Despereauxand Flora and Ulysses. Her best-known books for young children are Mercy Watson series illustrated by Chris Van Dusen...
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth25 March 1964
CityPhiladelphia, PA
moving bulls said
They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere
book simple hands
We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award
once-upon-a-time phrases shapes
The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
stars said has-beens
I have been loved said Edward to the stars
kings law may
When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
heart thinking broken
Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
fun book kids
What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [ Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.
powerful thinking and-love
Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.
fun war fighting
Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.
real dragons fairy-tale
Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
book writing light
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
fun thinking parent
I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.
book kids writing
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
beautiful stars princess
Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. She shone bright as the stars on a moonless night. But what difference did it make that she was beautiful? None. No difference." Why did it make no difference?" asked Abilene. Because," said Pellegrina, "She was a princess who loved no one and cared nothing for love, even though there were many who loved her.