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 dark light
Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
powerful like-love ridiculous
And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
expanding-universe expanding universe
You are the ever-expanding universe to me
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 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
stars differences doe
I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?
powerful thinking and-love
Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.
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.
fun war fighting
Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.