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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.
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We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.
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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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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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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
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Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)
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