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
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.
heart dark light
Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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.
missing-someone heart loss
Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)
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.
believe heart eye
Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?” “Mmmm-hmmm,” said Gloria. She closed her eyes. “I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.
heart mouths soup
There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
heart bad-things
There is a lot of love in him, a lot of love in his heart...And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and no where to put it.
heart fighting light
Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.
heart firsts dolls
Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
believe heart world
I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.
revenge heart fate
There are those 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. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.
father heart two
But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself.