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 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.
beautiful mother disappointment
At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it; she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.
powerful moving mountain
Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
judging people done
You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.
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.
reading knights together
He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.
reading magic stories
And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
heart firsts dolls
Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
powerful dying kingdoms
This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.
dark doors light
In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
world ifs
How will the world change if we do not question 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.
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.