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
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.
heart broken wish
Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it’s a terrible thing. I’m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me
heart broken how-to-love
I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
heart broken together
There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.
american-author danger happens heart keeping locked share somebody
The story is about what happens when you share your heart with somebody else; it is also about the danger of keeping things locked up.
american-author contend office time work
Ideally, I'd like to work part time at the bookstore. That would give me more time to contend with all the office work of writing.
american-author children offered presented reading
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
people pancakes adventurous
I love adventurous travel. I also love pancakes, and making pancakes for other people. You would definitely find me in the airy treetop as opposed to below ground.
war
There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
thinking storyteller
I like to think of myself as a storyteller,
powerful elephants magic
If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.
play promise wonderful
This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
writing attention pay-attention
Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
summer girl talking
Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.