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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Littles
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Men
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Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
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I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.
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Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.
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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
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The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.
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