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 children offered presented reading
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
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 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.
war
There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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.
reading people profound
I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.
writing play pieces
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
adventure army pigs
What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.
heart dark light
Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
blessed people would-be
I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
children book writing
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.