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
beautiful falling-in-love powerful
Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse fall in love with a beautiful princess named Pea? The answer is.. Yes. Of course it's ridiculous. Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful.
kings light soul
The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
powerful dying kingdoms
This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.
thinking rats facts
Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.
light sweetness wells
Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.
book writing
We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.
heart firsts dolls
Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
light two long
the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light.
soul answers poet
[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
girl writing
While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.
longing reciprocal
Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
world ifs
How will the world change if we do not question it?
astute observation
Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.
character thinking enough
I always wanted to be a character, when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters and I wasn't tall enough for others. I wanted to be a chipmunk; I think 4'10" was the cutoff.