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
bravery defiance reader
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
forever truth-is
That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
astute observation
Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.
magic impossible ends
Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.
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.
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.
names doubt lasts
All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
seems
Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
longing reciprocal
Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
return arms open-arms
What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?
bad-things
It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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.
fate men interesting
Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
expanding-universe expanding universe
You are the ever-expanding universe to me