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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.
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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I think of Mercy Watson like a superball there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.
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No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.
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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.
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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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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
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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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