Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo

• By E. B.

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• Kate DiCamillo is the author of the award winning
  children's book, because of Winn-Dixie.
• She has also written the Tail of Despereaux, The
  Miraculous Tales of Edward Tulane, and Mercy
  Watson.

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Where she lives?

• She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
  raised in Clermont, Florida and currently lives
  in Minneapolis, Minnesota

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• She loves to eat but cannot cook!
• She is not married and has no kids but she is an
  aunt to 3 wonderful kids Luke, Roxanne, and Max

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Childhood friend

• When she was little she had a poodle named
  Nanette.
• She loved to dress her up especially in a green
  tutu and then a disco dancer.

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• She was a very sick kid.
• When they moved to Florida she was suffered from
  chronic pneumonia.
• She used books to see what the world was like
  when she was always trapped inside.

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Writing

• Writing has always been a dream of Kate's but
  she didnt start till she was 29
• She got a job at a book warehouse and she was
  surrounded by tons of children's books it wasnt
  long until she fell in love with them.

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Because of Winn-Dixie

• She wrote because of Winn-Dixie because she was
  homesick for Florida she lived in Minneapolis at
  the time she wanted a dog but the apartment she
  livee in didnt allow them.

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Rewards

• Kate says that the most rewarding part about
  being an author is getting letters from kids.
• She said one day a kid wrote and said, I didnt
  like books but after Winn-Dixie I love them!
  thats what makes it all worth while.

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Honor

• Kate Dicamillo won the Newberry award for
  Because of Winn-Dixie
• It was a dream come true for her she said nobody
  was surprised as she was, After the Newbery
  committee called me, I spent the whole days
  walking into walls. Literally," she says. "I
  was stunned. And very, very happy."

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Luke Bailey

• One day a her best friends son asked her to
  write a story for him her is there conversation
  'Well,' I said, 'I don't normally write stories
  on command.' 'But this is a story that I know you
  would want to tell,' he said. 'It's about an
  unlikely hero. He has exceptionally large ears.'
  'What happens to this hero?' I asked. 'I don't
  know,' he said. 'That's why I want you to write
  it down, so you can find out. So the Tail of
  Desperaux was made.

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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

• One year she got a toy rabbit for Christmas
• I brought him home, placed him on a chair in my
  living room, and promptly forgot about him. A few
  days later, I dreamed that the rabbit was
  face-down on the ocean floor - lost, and waiting
  to be found.
• So Edward Tulane became a book

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• Some people may think well what does an author do
  all day? Does she write a book a day sit home and
  think about her next chapter? No
• She said her goal is to write 2 pages a day 5
  days a week she says
• "E. B. White said, 'All that I hope to say in
  books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I
  love the world,' " she says. "That's the way I
  feel too."

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What she wrote her pride and joy
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Inspiration

• These are Kate's inspiring words to writers to be
  everywhere If you want to be a writer, write a
  little bit every day. Pay attention to the world
  around you. Stories are hiding, waiting
  everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and
  your heart.