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
men said lost
Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.
stars together constellations
You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
care worst wanted
No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.
art reading mean
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.
girl summer mother
SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain, and the green outrageous hopeful light of spring. People came and went, grandmothers and doll collectors and little girls with their mothers. Edward Tulane waited. The seasons turned into years. Edward Tulane waited. He repeated the old doll’s words over and over until they wore a smooth groove of hope in his brain: Someone will come; someone will come for you.
character mercy
I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
dark light world
Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.
character personality traits
I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison McGhee], but they certainly draw on our physical traits and personality traits and then exaggerate them to the nth degree.
quests wonder loud
Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.
farewell promise sorrow
But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.
dark light world
Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
So, yes, at least from my end. You could say there's a lot of Alison [McGhee] in Gollie too.